Microsoft Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (HiveNightmare, SeriousSAM)

Microsoft Windows is prone to an elevation of privilege vulnerability. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free...

Last Week’s Security news: Pegasus, SeriousSAM, Sequoia

Hello everyone! After 4 episodes of the Last Weeks Security news, I decided to change the format. I will no longer try to cover all the important news, because it takes a long time to prepare such reviews. So, from now on, I will focus only on a few news of the past week, which I subjectively...

How to Mitigate Microsoft Windows 10, 11 SeriousSAM Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows 11 users are at risk of a new unpatched vulnerability that was recently disclosed publicly. As we reported last week, the vulnerability — SeriousSAM — allows attackers with low-level permissions to access Windows system files to perform a Pass-the-Hash and...

Microsoft Issues Windows 10 Workaround Fix for ‘SeriousSAM’ Bug

A privilege escalation bug, affecting versions of Windows 10, received a workaround fix by Microsoft Wednesday to prevent attackers from accessing data and creating new accounts on compromised systems. The bug, dubbed SeriousSAM, affects the Security Accounts Manager SAM database in all versions ...

HiveNightmare zero-day lets anyone be SYSTEM on Windows 10 and 11

Users with low privileges can access sensitive Registry database files on Windows 10 and Windows 11, leaving them vulnerable to a local elevation of privilege vulnerability known as SeriousSAM or HiveNightmare. Doesnt sound serious? Reassured that users must already have access to the system and ...

Exploit for CVE-2021-36934

ShadowSteal | CVE-2021-36934 Pure Nim implementation for explo...