Windows Exploitation Techniques: Winning Race Conditions with Path Lookups
This post was originally written in 2016 for the Project Zero blog. However, in the end it was published separately in the journal PoC||GTFO issue #13 as well as in the second volume of the printed version. In honor of our new blog we’re republishing it on this blog and included an updated analysis to see if it still works on a modern Windows 11 system. During my Windows research I tend to find quite a few race condition vulnerabilities. A fairly typical exploitable form look something like this: Do some security check Access some resource Perform secure action If [...]