Azure RBAC Privilege Escalations: Azure VM

Microsoft Azure provides administrators with controls to limit the actions a principal can take within the cloud environment. These actions can broadly be split into two categories: those that impact the Entra ID tenant and those that affect the Azure cloud subscription, the latter of which we will call “RBAC actions.” Prior research into Entra […]

ETW Threat Intelligence and Hardware Breakpoints

Learn to bypass EDR detection using NtContinue for hardware breakpoints without triggering ETW Threat Intelligence. This technical blog explores kernel debugging, debug registers, and EDR evasion with code examples.

Advisory: Qlik Original Fix for CVE 2023-41265 Vulnerable to RCE

Overview On August 29th, 2023 Qlik issued a patch for two vulnerabilities we identified in Qlik Sense Enterprise, CVE-2023-41265 and CVE-2023-41266. These vulnerabilities allowed for unauthenticated remote code execution via path traversal and HTTP request tunneling. As part of our standard operating procedure, we performed a diff of the issued patch to identify potential bypasses […]

Announcing Gato Version 1.5!

On January 21, 2023 at ShmooCon 2023, Praetorian open-sourced Gato (Github Attack Toolkit), a first of its kind tool that focuses on abusing offensive TTPs targeting self-hosted GitHub Actions Runners. Since then, Praetorian and other offensive security practitioners across the information security community have leveraged Gato for so much more than just self-hosted runner attacks. […]

Technical Advisory – Azure B2C – Crypto Misuse and Account Compromise

Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory B2C service contained a cryptographic flaw which allowed an attacker to craft an OAuth refresh token with the contents for any user account. An attacker could redeem this refresh token for a session token, thereby gaining access to a victim account as if the attacker had logged in through a legitimate […]