by Jordi Bercial 1 hour ago …

As seen in different parts of the infosec community, originating from the Twitter account of Jonas L , we can see as a vulnerability in the NTFS file system may allow an attacker without privilege on the system to corrupt the MFT (Master File Table) of the file system.

While this vulnerability is believed to be present only in Windows 10 as of 2018, some users mention that it is available even on older operating systems, including Windows XP , although in any case the attack vector is the same.

In any case, the problem resides with the path “$ i 30 ”, a path that leads to an index of file attributes which, under normal conditions, does not cause any problems, but if you try to access it manually, as would be the case of typing the path in a browser or clicking on a link that leads to it , it will cause a corruption of the MFT of the system files.

From here the problems can be varied, but in general, the operating system will complain that the file system is corrupt and will ask us to start a disk repair , something that can end with a blue screen and a crashed system. Hopefully Microsoft will speak out and give this issue a certain priority over other ongoing issues.

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Jordi Bercial

Avid enthusiast of technology and electronics. I mess with computer components almost since I learned to ride I started working at Geeknetic after winning a contest on their forum for writing hardware articles. Drift, mechanics and photography lover. Don’t be shy and leave a comment on my articles if you have any questions.