Fortify Blog CVE-2021-36934 – HiveNightmare

Summary The default configuration in Microsoft Windows 10 v1809 and newer includes an elevation of privilege vulnerability, because of overly permissive Access Control Lists (ACLs) in the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database, as well as multiple other system files. Upon successful exploitation, an attacker can run arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges, leading to installation of […]