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Windows Escalate UAC Protection Bypass

Disclosed
Dec 31, 2010
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module will bypass Windows UAC by utilizing the trusted publisher
certificate through process injection. It will spawn a second shell that
has the UAC flag turned off.

Authors

David Kennedy "ReL1K" [email protected]
mitnick
mubix [email protected]

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x86, x64

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':


msf > use exploit/windows/local/bypassuac
msf exploit(bypassuac) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(bypassuac) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(bypassuac) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(bypassuac) > exploit

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