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July 6th, 2026 at 3:32 PM

Microsoft Windows Installer Folder Delete Privilege Escalation

By Endri Domi Overview This blog post details a logic vulnerability discovered internally in the COM interface exposed from the msi.dll binary. The vulnerability allows a low-privileged user to cause the MSI service to delete an arbitrary folder that the user has access to, by scheduling its path in the TempPackages registry key. The service does not validate that the folder ... Read more Microsoft Windows Installer Folder Delete Privilege Escalation The post Microsoft Windows Installer Folder Delete Privilege Escalation appeared first on Exodus Intelligence .

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