Privilege Escalation Attacks

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Written By Threat NG Staff

Exploiting a bug, a design defect, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software program to acquire elevated access to resources typically guarded against an application or user is known as privilege escalation. As a result, a system administrator or application developer may not have intended their software to have more access than they did.

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