Security News > 2021 > August > SteelSeries software makes you Windows 10 admin with or without a real device
The official app for installing SteelSeries devices on Windows 10 can be exploited to obtain administrator rights, a security researcher has found.
A real SteelSeries device is not necessary to exploit the bug.
Playing with a recently acquired SteelSeries keyboard on Monday, the researcher discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability that allowed him to run the Command Prompt in Windows 10 with admin privileges.
A real SteelSeries device is not necessary for this attack to work.
Amer told BleepingComputer that he tried informing SteelSeries about the vulnerability but could not find a public bug bounty program or a contact for product security.
An attacker could save the vulnerable signed executable dropped in the temporary folder when plugging in a SteelSeries device and serve it in a DNS poisoning attack.