CAPEC-69 Target Programs with Elevated Privileges

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This attack targets programs running with elevated privileges. The adversary tries to leverage a vulnerability in the running program and get arbitrary code to execute with elevated privileges.

likelihood: Highseverity: Very High
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weaknesses (2)

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related attack patterns (1)

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