Elevating Privileges with SeBackupPrivilege on Windows

WINDOWS PRIVILEGE ESCALATION

Once we gain initial access to a system during an internal penetration testing assessment, the next step is to escalate privileges in order to run necessary tools and explore the network effectively. In a Windows environment, one of the common ways to do this is by exploiting a user’s privileges.

Abusing the SeBackupPrivilege is one such way. A user with this privilege can create a full backup of the entire system, …

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