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Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler

Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler

Four vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Windows task scheduling service, which could be exploited by attackers seeking privilege escalation or wishing to erase evidence of malicious activities. Researchers found issues within a binary named “schtasks.exe,” enabling unauthorised access, data theft and further system compromise. To work, the threat actor must acquire a password by other means, such as password cracking or exploiting other flaws.

Source: thehackernews.com –

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