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#Steelseries wow mouse not connecting driver#
This is exposing a similar problem in not dropping elevated privileges when placing files that are not themselves driver files, after not prompting for UAC to begin with. It's been noticed that in some cases UAC will not prompt on installation of programs lacking certain key terms in the file name such as "setup" or "installer", for example. The heuristics they use in place of unconditional UAC prompts for installation since Win 7 (which was the correct way) allows a lot of loopholes like this. They got reamed over UAC popping up "too often" in Vista.
#Steelseries wow mouse not connecting software#
The only way to permanently fix this problem for all known and unknown devices is an overhaul of the way Windows installs software and device drivers, which Microsoft has been loath to do. It's just lazy programmers at these companies causing the chain of circumstances to be exposed. The underlying flawed chain of circumstances is in Windows. I find it interesting that you blame Windows and not Razor or Steelseries." Instead, we read every day about new hacking possibilities :)"
#Steelseries wow mouse not connecting windows 10#
""I thought Windows 10 are the safest, fastest and best service ever ever ever.
#Steelseries wow mouse not connecting generator#
Penetration testing researcher István Tóth published an open-source script that can mimic human interface devices (HID) on an Android phone, specifically for testing local privilege escalation (LPE) scenarios.Īlthough an experimental version, the script can successfully emulate both Razer and SteelSeries devices.Īfter Amer published his research, Tóth published a video demonstrating that LPE discovered by Amer can be achieved using his USB Gadget Generator Tool. It also installs and allows configuring mice (Rival 650/600/710) and headsets (Arctis 9, Pro) from the maker it even lets users control the RGB lighting on the QCK Prism gaming mousepad.Īmer started by plugging in his keyboard and monitoring the installation process, which started with downloading the SteelSeries software (SteelSeriesGG6.2.0Setup.exe) to the Windows temporary folder.Ī real SteelSeries device is not necessary for this attack to work. The SteelSeries software is not just for keyboards (Apex 7/Pro), though. 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. The discovery comes after news broke over the weekend that the Razer Synapse software can be used to gain elevated privileges when connecting a Razer mouse or keyboard.Įncouraged by the research from jonhat, offensive security researcher Lawrence Amer (research team leader at 0xsp) found that the same can be achieved with the SteelSeries device installation software. A real SteelSeries device is not necessary to exploit the bug. Leveraging the bug is possible during the device setup process, using a link in the License Agreement screen that is opened with SYSTEM privileges. You can set a vast array of colours as well as adjusting the Intensity and Pulsation.Īll in all it seems like they thought of everything with regards to software.The official app for installing SteelSeries devices on Windows 10 can be exploited to obtain administrator rights, a security researcher has found. Well not quite, but it does have 3 ‘V’ LED’s in the ‘metal’ part of the mouse. The right-hand side gives you access to the Button Assignment options (excluding standard ones) which inlcude the Game Commands, CPI changing, Profile changing and the brilliant Custom Macros.įinally, in the bottom section, you can play with the colour of your mouse. Also from the left hand side you can also alter the Windows mouse settings as well as an Advanced Sensitivity which is for the geekiest of the gamers. While I’m not going to talk you through every button and option there are a few things to note The CPI can be changed between 800,1600,2400,3200,40, giving a good variety. Then, if that wasn’t enough for you, you may notice 3 sides of this window actually expand out. On top of this you can set-up profiles, and save to the onboard memory and yes you can alter profiles from the mouse. There are a lot of options for each of these if you left-click you can assign a vast array of Game Commands (There are probably nearly 100 different commands) or if you right-click you can access normal mouse commands. This section does give you the options to change what each button does, all 14 of them. When you open up the program for the first time, I will be surprised if you are not knocked back with what looks to make a mass of options, diagrams and a lot of over designing.
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The download is not large and will not take long to install.
#Steelseries wow mouse not connecting drivers#
SoftwareWhile there is not a CD included in the box there are drivers available for download on the Steelseries website (under downloads).