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Re: priviledge escalation techniques
From: lists <lists () innocence-lost net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:19:40 -0700 (MST)
3) the one I've chosen, similar to (1) above. I've XP with the Accessibility Tools installed by default. They monitor some keys, and if for example you press SHIFT 5 times a popup appears where you can activate and configure the accessibility tools. The program responsible for that is sethc.exe, and the guys at Micro$oft comit the cardinal mistake of not making IT check if SHIFT was pressed 5 times, but to include that in some other part of the OS (kernel? ;-) So if you press SHIFT 5 times, sethc.exe is executed, but doesn't matter WHAT IS sethc.exe You guess that, I replaced sethc.exe by a copy of cmd.exe If I press that BEFORE login, a CLI as SYSTEM is started, I can launch compmgmt.msc and add myself to the local administrators group (please note that if you start it AFTER login, a CLI is started as your user).
How do you suppose one gets write access to sethc.exe without admin privs in the first place? I cannot overwrite my sethc.exe, nor can I change the system Path variables, and it gets prepended to my path before user variables do- are you sure you didn't test this while logged in as an admin? jnf
Current thread:
- priviledge escalation techniques Dan Rogers (Jan 17)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques Chuck Herrin (Jan 17)
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- Re: priviledge escalation techniques miguel . dilaj (Jan 17)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques lists (Jan 18)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques jnf (Jan 18)
- RE: priviledge escalation techniques John Cobb (Jan 20)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques miguel . dilaj (Jan 20)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques jnf (Jan 20)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques miguel . dilaj (Jan 20)
- RE: priviledge escalation techniques Marc Maiffret (Jan 20)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques BSK (Jan 20)
- RE: priviledge escalation techniques Dave Wells (Jan 20)
- RE: priviledge escalation techniques Michael Howard (Jan 20)
- Re: priviledge escalation techniques BSK (Jan 20)
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