Privilege escalation attacks are particularly dangerous as they allow attackers to bypass restrictions and security measures put in place to safeguard the system. In a recent assessment of the Asus RT-N12+ B1 routers exhibit a critical vulnerability where they provide unrestricted root terminal access via a serial interface without appropriate access control measures. This oversight...
Maintaining proactive defences against emerging cyber threats is of the utmost importance in today’s rapidly changing cybersecurity environment, and one area that has gained more consideration recently is privilege escalation: the practice of gaining higher-level access within systems or networks has received much thought and consideration. One technique known as CertPotato uses certificates to escalate...
