Windows Privilege Escalation THM Room
Windows Privilege Escalation INTRODUCTION During a penetration test, you will often have access to some Windows hosts with an unprivileged user. Unprivileged users will hold limited access, including their files and folders only, and have no means to perform administrative tasks on the host, preventing you from having complete control over your target. This room covers fundamental techniques that attackers can use to elevate privileges in a Windows environment, allowing you to use any initial unprivileged foothold on a host to escalate to an administrator account, where possible. If you want to brush up on your skills first, you can have a look through the Windows Fundamentals Module or the Hacking Windows Module . Windows Privilege Escalation Windows Privilege Escalation Simply put, privilege escalation consists of using given access to a host with "user A" and leveraging it to gain access to "user B" by abusing a weakness in the ta...