November 23, 2021 By Pierluigi Paganini
A researcher publicly disclosed an exploit for a new Windows zero-day local privilege elevation that can allow gaining admin privileges.
A security researcher has publicly disclosed an exploit for a new Windows zero-day local privilege elevation vulnerability that can be exploited by threat actors to achieve admin privileges in Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server, BleepingComputer reported. The vulnerability can be exploited by threat actors to elevate their privileges to carry out multiple malicious activities, it was discovered by the security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri who published a working proof-of-concept exploit for the new zero-day on GitHub.