---
id: 4312
title: "Milking the last drop of Intego - Time for Windows to get its LPE"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/milking-the-last-drop-of-intego-time-for-windows-to-get-its-lpe.html"
published_at: "2026-04-06 22:00"
tags: ["vulnerability-research", "privilege-escalation", "windows-security", "windows", "vulnerability", "antivirus", "intego", "symbolic-link"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4312"
lang: en
---

# Milking the last drop of Intego - Time for Windows to get its LPE

## Summary

Quarkslab discloses a Windows LPE in Intego 3.0.0.1: the Optimization module deletes files as SYSTEM without validating directory junctions, chaining the Config.msi trick to reach SYSTEM privileges.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2026-04-06 22:00
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/milking-the-last-drop-of-intego-time-for-windows-to-get-its-lpe.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4312