{"id":10879,"date":"2026-11-12T19:11:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/new-signdrop-zero-day-exploit-turns-windows-clfs-security-feature-into-system-access\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T19:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T19:11:52","slug":"new-signdrop-zero-day-exploit-turns-windows-clfs-security-feature-into-system-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/new-signdrop-zero-day-exploit-turns-windows-clfs-security-feature-into-system-access\/","title":{"rendered":"New SignDrop Zero-Day Exploit Turns Windows CLFS Security Feature Into SYSTEM Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPublic exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver.<\/p>\n<p>The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year. It abuses how clfs.sys creates companion files when a privileged process opens a prepared log, using path redirection to take control of\u00a0Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver.<\/p>\n<p>The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year. It abuses how clfs.sys creates companion files when a privileged process opens a prepared log, using path redirection to take control of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bPublic exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver. The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year. It abuses how clfs.sys creates companion files when a privileged process opens a prepared log,&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/new-signdrop-zero-day-exploit-turns-windows-clfs-security-feature-into-system-access\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New SignDrop Zero-Day Exploit Turns Windows CLFS Security Feature Into SYSTEM Access<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}