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Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday


Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive.

It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability. The Windows User Profile Service, also referred to as ProfSvc, is a core system component that manages user accounts and environments.

“The PoC requires

Source: thehackernews.com –

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