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Bypassing Administrator Protection by Abusing UI Access

Security researcher documents the root cause analysis of 5 out of 9 bypasses discovered in Windows' Administrator Protection feature, focusing on how UI Access implementation enables privilege escalation through window message manipulation (Shatter Attacks) and accessibility abuse.

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projectzero.google · James Forshaw· 1 month ago · research · details