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Adversaries can exploit CVE-2024-6769 to jump from regular to admin access without triggering UAC, but Microsoft says it's not really a vulnerability.

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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"The account from which the attack is launched must be a member of the local admin group"

Umm, so let me get this straight, so a local admin can fuck up a system?

I'm shocked.

Just another example of why we don't let users be member of the admin group.