MICROSOFT IS continuing its ‘October Update Horribilus’ with the discovery that a security hole in the Universal Windows Platform gave full file system access to apps.
In other words, it had the potential to let a bad app do whatever it wanted with your data, and because it didn’t ask for permissions, you’d never even know.
The issue comes from a permission in the system called broadFileSystemAccess. It’s the key to the drinks cabinet, so to speak.
