# Windows Privilege Escalation

> Privilege Escalation refers to the process of exploiting misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and unintended bugs in order to gain higher privileges on the target host. The final objective of this process is to gain the highest level of privileges on a target machine, achieving full compromise of that target.

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**Windows Privilege Escalation:**

1. Hacktricks: <https://book.hacktricks.xyz/windows-hardening/windows-local-privilege-escalation>
2. Hacktricks: <https://book.hacktricks.xyz/windows-hardening/checklist-windows-privilege-escalation>
3. Windows Privesc Collection: <https://github.com/ycdxsb/WindowsPrivilegeEscalation>
