In this post, I’ll discuss an arbitrary file move vulnerability I found in Windows Service Tracing. From my testing, it affected all versions of Windows from Vista to 10 but it’s probably even olde...

A DLL hijacking “vulnerability” in the CDPSvc service was reported to Microsoft at least two times this year. As per their policy though, DLL planting issues that fall into the category of PATH dir...

I want to tell you the story of a service account which lost all its powers (a.k.a. privileges). Windows world is getting increasingly ruthless and when the system considers you are not worthy, thi...

In the previous post, I showed how the USO client could be used to interact with the USO service and thus have it load the windowscoredeviceinfo.dll DLL on demand with the StartScan option. I wasn’...

The DiagHub DLL loading technique found by James Forshaw (a.k.a. @tiraniddo) has become very famous. Whenever you found an arbitrary file write as SYSTEM in Windows or in some third-party software,...

DLL Hijacking is the first Windows privilege escalation technique I worked on as a junior pentester, with the IKEEXT service on Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2). Here, I’d like to discuss one ...

In the previous part, I discussed the method used by Didier Stevens to run cmd.exe within Excel (or Word) thanks to a custom shellcode in VBA. I also outlined its limitations. In this part, I’ll tr...

In this post, I’d like to share a technique that I often use to break out of highly constrained desktop environments such as CItrix. The only prerequisite is to have access to Microsoft Word or Exc...

A vulnerability was discovered in the uxdqmsrv binary. It consists in an arbitrary file write as root that can be leveraged by any local user to gain full root privileges on the host (UNIX/Linux on...

A vulnerability was discovered in the mcmnm binary. It is compiled with a RPATH starting with .:. Therefore, any user can craft a malicious library (e.g.: libmcmclnx.so) and then run mcmnm from the...