Threat intelligence and penetration testing team finds local privilege escalation issue in network monitoring software. The vulnerability enables a hacker or malicious user to use symlinks to escalate their privileges to gain administrator rights for full access to a specific system or machine. The discovery has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) catalog number (CVE-2018-17887) and more information is available in the Section 8 blog post PRTG Network Monitor Privilege Escalation with technical details about the vulnerability.”]
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