Unity Discloses a Years-Old Security Exploit – Urges Developers to Update Games
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Unity discloses a years-old security exploit and urges developers to update their games, with the community showing a muted response due to the low number of comments.
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So the attacker needs write/execute on the machine before the attack can take place? Doesn't seem very serious to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding this and someone can explain what a realistic exploit chain for this would look like?