Microsoft Error Reporting Local Privilege Elevation

This Metasploit module takes advantage of a bug in the way Windows error reporting opens the report parser. If you open a report, Windows uses a relative path to locate the rendering program. By creating a specific alternate directory structure, we can coerce Windows into opening an arbitrary executable as SYSTEM. If the current user is a local admin, the system will attempt impersonation and the exploit will fail.

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