Can Adobe Flash Read Files?

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I was just wondering if Adobe Flash can read files or file names on my local computer and send that to a server. (I would hope not.)

Thanks for answering. :slight_smile:

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Well of course it can. There was an exploit a while back that was used to compromise a Windows machine in the pwn-2-own contest. It used Flash to get around the security in Windows 7 (could have been Vista) and read a file.

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Not without you giving it permission to do it can’t, and not at all previous to version 10. You can publish a swf to use either a local only or network only sandbox. In network mode (i.e a swf on a web page) to access a local file, the user must initiate a system file selection prompt. This prompt can neither be automatic or hidden. The file path of a selected file is not passed back to the swf.