GAC Hijacking

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Status: integrated

Excerpt

The Global Assembly Cache is a system-wide repository in the.NET framework that stores strong named (name + version + culture + public key token identity) assemblies so multiple applications can use them without version conflicts. On Windows systems, GAC is typically under %windir%\Microsoft.NET\assembly, and assemblies stored there are intended to be globally available to CLR-hosting processe…