windowssecurityprivilegesescalation

I s it safe to set Everyone group access at file level in system folder on windows?


Is it obvious that giving access to Everyone with full permissions on folders in the C:\ProgramData is not safe and can lead to privilege escalation. My question is how is the situation for text files? Is it still dangerous?

Is it obvious that giving access to Everyone with full permissions on folders in the C:\ProgramData is not safe and can lead to privilege escalation. My question is how is the situation for text files? Is it still dangerous?


Solution

  • It is not recommended to set Everyone on folder and files in the windows system folder. The common C:\ProgramData folder is a place for common settings that is shared with all users. So the access for normal users is read/execute by default.