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by ergo98 5750 days ago
What do you mean by "local SYSTEM"?

I eagerly look forward to details on it. Where might I find them?

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> What do you mean by "local SYSTEM"?

The highest system privilege level on Windows. They were able to interactively run CMD.EXE as the LocalSystem account on the remote web server.

> I eagerly look forward to details on it. Where might I find them?

The details were not disclosed until today when the attack was presented at a security conference. As far as I know there isn't anything available online yet, but that should change very soon.