Detect the 4 most common privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows.
There exist many actual and potential vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system suite which could leave your systems open to attack. While many of these are patched or mitigated when they are discovered, many still remain as “features” of the operating system. We’ve isolated four of these vulnerabilities which we feel are the most easily exploitable and written a small scan tool to help identify at risk systems, and are now releasing it for free for anybody to make use of. The vulnerabilities detected are: Always Install Elevated, Legacy SysPrep Configuration Files, Unquoted Windows Service Paths, and Windows Service Registry Permissions.