What is privilege escalation?

April 15th, 2006 by uCertify Leave a reply »

Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug or design flaw in a software application to gain access to resources, which normally would have been protected, from an application or user. The result is that the application performs actions with more privileges than intended by the application developer or system administrator.
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