Privilege Escalation

pwning asus driverhub, msi center, acer control centre and razer synapse 4

24 July 2025 ~56 min By Leon Jacobs
Bloatware Exploit Development Privilege Escalation Research Reversing
At the beginning of this year I spent a week finding several vulnerabilities in various “bloatware” software. This was after I got suspicious of how my ASUS motherboard’s “DriverHub” behaved. In the end I looked at 6 targets from 6 random vendors (apart from ASUS) and found vulnerabilities ranging from Remote Code Execution to Local Privilege Escalation in all of them. Those were: ASUS, Acer, Lenovo, HP, MSI and Razer.

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11 September 2020 ~7 min By Paul van der Haas
0day Dll Hijacking Privilege Escalation
A while ago Jonas Lykkegaard disclosed a zeroday that could be used to create files in the SYSTEM folder. CVE-2020-16885 got assigned for this vulnerability, and was since patched with KB4580346. This vulnerability was very convenient for Dynamic-link library (DLL) side-loading, which I will show in this blog post. Below you can find his original Twitter message. Unprivileged users are not allowed to create files in system32 folder- on hyper-v hosts they finally realised that unprivileged lives matters too as anyone can now create files there , with creater as owner, just open like this: pic.twitter.com/Pd6nnqhcKZ