Nssm-2.24 Privilege Escalation ⚡ 〈Extended〉

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of service configuration files. NSSM uses a configuration file to store service settings, and these files are stored in a directory that is writable by the SYSTEM user. When a user with limited privileges attempts to start a service using NSSM, the service manager will attempt to read and write to the configuration file.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious configuration file with elevated privileges. When a user with limited privileges attempts to start a service using NSSM, the service manager will execute the malicious configuration file, allowing the attacker to gain elevated privileges. nssm-2.24 privilege escalation

# Create malicious configuration file with open(malicious_config_file, 'w') as f: f.write(' malicious content ') The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of