Windows User Account Control Bypassed Using Character Editor to Escalate Privileges

A sophisticated new technique that exploits the Windows Private Character Editor to bypass User Account Control (UAC) and achieve privilege escalation without user intervention, raising significant concerns for system administrators worldwide. The attack disclosed by Matan Bahar leverages eudcedit.exeMicrosoft’s built-in Private Character Editor, located in C:\Windows\System32, which was originally designed to create and edit End-User […]

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