LocalPotato | Tryhackme Writeup/Walkthrough |By Md Amiruddin

Learn how to elevate your privileges on Windows using LocalPotato (CVE-2023–21746).

Room Link : https://tryhackme.com/room/localpotato

Task 1 : Introduction

A local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in Windows was reported to Microsoft on September 9, 2022, by Andrea Pierini (@decoder_it) and Antonio Cocomazzi (@splinter_code). The vulnerability would allow an attacker with a low-privilege account on a host to read/write arbitrary files with SYSTEM privileges.

Microsoft released a fix for the vulnerability in the January 2023 patch Tuesday, …

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