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Why Are My Junctions Not Followed? Exploring Windows Redirection Trust Mitigation

Palo Alto Unit 42by Gal De Leon ()4 min read7 · 4 reads
Analyze CVE-2020-0787 with Vani AIImpact, affected versions, exploitation, mitigations and detection

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2020-0787
Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS)
7.843%KEVRansomwarePoC
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In recent years, one of the most common classes of elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities is file system redirection attacks. This class abuses the fact that a privileged component, such as a Windows service, operates on files or directories that are writable by unprivileged users.

Palo Alto Unit 42

By Gal De Leon · unit42.paloaltonetworks.com

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