Understanding the New Windows Secure Kernel Mode Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21302)

On August 7, 2024, Microsoft disclosed a significant security vulnerability affecting Windows-based systems, known as CVE-2024-21302. This zero-day vulnerability allows attackers with administrator privileges to elevate their access by replacing current versions of Windows system files with...

Microsoft Windows: Audit Sensitive Privilege Use

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winsensitiveprivilegeuse.nasl 11068 2018-08-21 11:51:41Z emoss $ Check value for Audit Sensitive Privilege Use Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program i...