privilege-escalation
6 posts tagged privilege-escalation.
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BadSuccessor: How the Feature That Killed Service-Account Attacks Became Domain Admin
Windows Server 2025 delegated MSAs were built to end kerberoasting. For one summer, a single OU permission turned dMSA succession into Domain Admin rights.
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A Mitigation That Became a Primitive: The Story of SeImpersonatePrivilege
How a 2003 backward-compatibility privilege became the most-abused Windows service primitive, and why every Microsoft closure path breaks something shipped.
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SYSTEM in Ten Seconds: How the Potato Family Survived Every Microsoft Mitigation
A decade of Windows local privilege escalation -- HotPotato through FakePotato -- rests on one architectural decision Microsoft has refused to revisit.
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Every UAC Prompt Is an ALPC Handshake: A Field Guide to Windows' Most-Attacked Local IPC Fabric
ALPC and LRPC are the asynchronous local-IPC fabric under every Windows service. This is the story of the kernel object Microsoft does not document and the attack surface almost every Patch Tuesday still fixes.
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Adminless: How Windows Finally Made Elevation a Security Boundary
Administrator Protection replaces UAC with a system-managed admin account created per elevation, gated by Windows Hello, and destroyed when the job is done.
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"Can This Code Do This?" -- Twenty-Five Years of Attacks on the Windows Access-Control Model
How a single kernel function, SeAccessCheck, decides every Windows operation -- and how Mimikatz, the Potato lineage, and seventy UAC bypasses each attack one of its inputs.