Will Schroeder and Lee Christensen wrote a research paper on this technique which can be referred to here. In ESC8 technique mentioned in the research paper,
Print Spooler has been on researcher’s radar ever since Stuxnet worm used print spooler’s privilege escalation vulnerability to spread through the network in nuclear enrichment
Introduction Oliver Lyak posted a write-up about a Windows Privilege Escalation vulnerability that persisted in Windows systems even after patching of previous vulnerabilities in Print
Team Qualys discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability in PolicyKit’s (polkit) setuid tool pkexec, known as PwnKit (CVE 2021-4034), which allows low-level users to run
According to Red Hat, “Polkit stands for PolicyKit which is a framework that provides an authorization API used by privileged programs.” Pkexec is a tool
As this series was dedicated to Windows Privilege escalation thus I’m writing this Post to explain command practice for kernel-mode exploitation. Table of Content What
An attacker can exploit Windows Task Scheduler to schedule malicious programs for initial or recurrent execution. For persistence, the attacker typically uses Windows Task Scheduler
CVE-2021-36934 also known as SeriousSAM and HiveNightmare vulnerability was discovered by Jonas Lykkegaard in July 2021. Due to an ACL misconfiguration in Windows 10 post-build
If an attacker finds a service that has all permission and its bind with the Registry run key then he can perform privilege escalation or