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by prvit 1421 days ago
Admin privileges don’t matter, all the stuff you care about lives in your homedir.

Have you ever seen a real world example of super common and super insecure AV drivers being exploited for LPE? Probably not, it’s not worth the trouble.

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I don't know if it has been exploited on the wild, but the subject seemingly interested some enough to find escalations bugs in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeDisc.
Yes, there are tons of these bugs and tons of PoCs. However, in real life, nobody bothers to exploit them because there’s very little to gain by doing so.