---
id: 8751
title: "Windows 10^H^H Symbolic Link Mitigations"
source_domain: projectzero.google
source_url: "https://projectzero.google/2015/08/windows-10hh-symbolic-link-mitigations.html"
published_at: "2015-08-25T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["privilege-escalation", "windows", "mitigations", "toctou", "symbolic-links"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8751"
lang: en
---

# Windows 10^H^H Symbolic Link Mitigations

## Summary

Years of Windows elevation of privilege research distilled into an overview of symbolic link mitigations, a technique long used to redirect privileged code and escape restricted execution contexts.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** projectzero.google
- **Published:** 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://projectzero.google/2015/08/windows-10hh-symbolic-link-mitigations.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8751