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by divingdragon 1517 days ago
It seems that 7-zip opens the .chm help file using the HtmlHelp [1] WinAPI call. This API call does not even seem to run `hh.exe`. How does this privilege escalation actually work?

[1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/htmlhelp/...