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by goldsteinq 174 days ago
> Also, for OP: Do you mean "access to the system it runs on"? Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't run with "SYSTEM" access (as in privileged user).

Yeah, I mean “access to the system”. It’s not the same as using headless chrome, because it gives you ActiveX and you can shell out to an arbitrary command.

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I see, I didn't know it was possible to load active x without user consent that way. that's wild.