In r/cybersecurity and r/bugbounty, builders discuss a leaked Windows privilege escalation exploit with no patch, framing it as a zero-day and criticizing Microsoft disclosure handling and triage quality.
Exploit code has been released for an unpatched Windows privilege escalation flaw reported privately to Microsoft, allowing attackers to gain SYSTEM or elevated administrator permissions.
Dubbed BlueHammer, the vulnerability was published by a security researcher discontent with how Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) handled the disclosure process.
Since, the security issue has no official patch and there is no update to address it, the flaw is considered a zero-day
BleepingComputer has contacted Microsoft for a comment on the BlueHammer flaw, but we did not receive a response by publication time.
Probably a triager marking it as N/A
Disgruntled researcher leaks “BlueHammer” Windows zero-day exploit
https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/BlueHammer
This is a pretty hairy and rough POC.
Since, the security issue has no official patch and there is no update to address it, the flaw is considered a zero-day by Microsoft's def
Probably some Level 1 support tech trying to prompt Copilot on the correct way to fix this, since all the actual developers have probably been fired.
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