Vigil@nce - MS WIndows 7, 2008: privilege escalation via registry permissions
January 2021 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: unique source (2/5).
Creation date: 26/11/2020.
Revision date: 27/11/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can make profit of permissive permission on the MS
Windows registry, in order to escalate his privileges.
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