---
id: 8713
title: "Windows Exploitation Tricks: Arbitrary Directory Creation to Arbitrary File Read"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2017/08/windows-exploitation-tricks-arbitrary.html"
published_at: "2017-08-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["privilege-escalation", "windows", "exploitation", "project-zero", "file-read", "directory-creation"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8713"
lang: en
---

# Windows Exploitation Tricks: Arbitrary Directory Creation to Arbitrary File Read

## Summary

A Project Zero post in the Windows exploitation tricks series, showing how an arbitrary directory creation primitive can be escalated into arbitrary file read.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2017-08-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2017/08/windows-exploitation-tricks-arbitrary.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8713