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noun
A means of bypassing security restrictions between processes in a session by having a less privileged process inject code into the message loop of a more privileged one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Windows, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software
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History
Coined in a paper in 2002 by Chris Paget: Exploiting design flaws in the Win32 API for privilege escalation.
