CVE-2019-1476

This is a detailed writeup describing the steps to exploit CVE-2019-1476, an elevation of privilege vulnerability in AppXSvc due to improper handling of file hard links. It allows a low-privileged user to overwrite arbitrary files, leading to denial of service or privilege escalation.

This repository contains a functional proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2019-1476, which leverages a hardlink attack to overwrite arbitrary files via the AppXSvc service. The exploit manipulates file attributes and process states to achieve a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.