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Windows Escalate UAC Protection Bypass (Via Shell Open Registry Key)

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Disclosed
Mar 17, 2017
Created
Nov 18, 2019

Description

This module will bypass Windows UAC by hijacking a special key in the Registry under
the current user hive, and inserting a custom command that will get invoked when
Window backup and restore is launched. It will spawn a second shell that has the UAC
flag turned off.

This module modifies a registry key, but cleans up the key once the payload has
been invoked.

Authors

enigma0x3
bwatters-r7

Platform

Windows

Architectures

x64

References

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_sdclt
    msf exploit(bypassuac_sdclt) > show targets
        ...targets...
    msf exploit(bypassuac_sdclt) > set TARGET < target-id >
    msf exploit(bypassuac_sdclt) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf exploit(bypassuac_sdclt) > exploit
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