Security News > 2019 > August > Reverse RDP Attack Also Enables Guest-to-Host Escape in Microsoft Hyper-V

2019-08-07 23:03
Remember the reverse RDP attack? Earlier this year, researchers disclosed clipboard hijacking and path-traversal issues in Microsoft's Windows built-in RDP client that could allow a malicious RDP server to compromise a client computer, reversely. (You can find details and a video demonstration for this security vulnerability, along with dozens of critical flaws in other third-party RDP
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