---
id: 8743
title: "[CVE-2015-4481] Between a Rock and a Hard Link"
cve: CVE-2015-4481
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2015/12/between-rock-and-hard-link.html"
published_at: "2015-12-04T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["sandbox-escape", "windows", "exploitation", "hard-links", "cve-2015-4481"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8743"
lang: en
---

# [CVE-2015-4481] Between a Rock and a Hard Link

## Summary

Hard links are legal inside Windows sandboxes, making them a useful exploitation primitive; the post weighs their pros and cons and demonstrates them in the real vulnerability CVE-2015-4481.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **CVE:** CVE-2015-4481
- **Published:** 2015-12-04T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2015/12/between-rock-and-hard-link.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8743