A Microsoft Windows zero-day native privilege acceleration vulnerability and a Proof-of-Concept activity for it have been exposed on Monday. It was revealed by somebody who went by SandboxEscaper on Twitter. The individual in interrogation erased the account shortly after, however not before shrill-eyed security analysts were capable to track the link to the GitHub source hosting the PoC activity.

A professional vulnerability researcher at the CERT/CC named Will Dormann, examined the activity and verified that it functions fine in a fully-fixed 64-bit Windows 10 system.

He also organized a flaw note describing the vulnerability. Microsoft Windows task scheduler has an indigenous privilege to accelerate the flaw in the Advanced Local Procedure Call interface to practice. The exploitation of which can permit a local individual to acquire SYSTEM rights on the mark computer.

“The CERT/CC is currently unaware of a practical solution to this problem,” he wrote, and later on mentioned on Twitter that he is presently oblivious of any workarounds.

Kevin Beaumont, the UK-based security architect has also verified the exploit functions. The flaw has so far to have a CVE number however has been granted a CVSS score that places it in the “medium” threat category. A Microsoft representative admitted the presence of the flaw and stated the firm will “proactively update impacted advices as soon as possible”.

UPDATE (August 28, 11:07 PDT): The analyst who released the vulnerability and Proof-of-Concept has returned on Twitter. Certain further facts on the problem can be identified in the thread.

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