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BillDemirkapi

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    Comment #39135275

    OP/bug finder here with some clarifying information. It's a common misconception that this issue can only be abused if you use HTTP boot. That is not the case at all, otherwise it …

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    Comment #29861222

    I can assure you the answer clicked before my research ever started. Unless I am using web server software that responds with one site for multiple host names, you generally need t…

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    Comment #29857327

    Yes, but at the time I already had an existing domain with a web server I could use. You are correct that I could have setup a separate site for hidusi[.]com and then point the dom…

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    Comment #29857103

    Author here. Yes simply editing my hosts file would have been much easier. The reason I went the longer approach of setting up the payload on a remote web server was because there …

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    Comment #19804170

    Dell SupportAssist comes pre-installed on most new Dell machines. The only reason it wasn't installed on my machine is because the drive I used was not prepared by Dell. Your avera…

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    Comment #19802400

    Unfortunately Dell doesn't pay bounties no matter how serious the bug is.

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    Comment #19802393

    There were a bunch of ways to bypass the check. For example another way would be to use "http:\\" which wouldn't get detected either. The new version isn't vulnerable.