awesome_windows_logical_bugs
Created this repo for the people who want to learn about windows logical privilege escalation bugs.
And also I added some of my findings. You can contact me via @404death to add good article which I missed.
work in progress (WIP) , I'm always update this repo when the new bugs release.
Escalation of Privileges (Vulnerabilities and Other Research):
Privileged File Operations Bugs To SYSTEM shell (Techniques):
- Arbitrary Directory Deletion to SYSTEM shell
- Arbitrary File create/write to SYSTEM shell
- Arbitrary Directory creation to SYSTEM shell
Service account to SYSTEM privilege (Token Impersonation) :
Tools:
- James Forshawβs purpose-built tools & libraries
- Windows built-in tools (powershell, cmd, filesystem utilities)
- SysInternals
Research by James Forshaw / Google Project Zero
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/08/windows-10hh-symbolic-link-mitigations.html
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/12/between-rock-and-hard-link.html
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-definitive-guide-on-win32-to-nt.html
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/08/windows-exploitation-tricks-arbitrary.html
- https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/04/windows-exploitation-tricks-exploiting.html
- https://infocon.org/cons/SyScan/SyScan%202015%20Singapore/SyScan%202015%20Singapore%20presentations/SyScan15%20James%20Forshaw%20-%20A%20Link%20to%20the%20Past.pdf
- https://vimeo.com/133002251
Thank to:
@tiraniddo @SandboxBear @jonasLyk @itm4n @decoder_it @enigma0x3 @padovah4ck @clavoillotte @PsiDragon @edwardzpeng