Access Based Enumeration (ABE)

Neither the concept, nor the implementation are new-so why blog about it? Well,it seems that ABE received a lot less attention then it should have. Most networked operating systems will allow you to share information, and based on your permissions you will only be able to “see” the resources that you can actually access. Microsoft Windows has been (and to some extent still is) different. With Windows, you can see all objects inside a specific network share, even if you have no permissions on the object itself. In other words, if a share exists (say ”Home Folders”) and you access … Continue reading Access Based Enumeration (ABE)