windows-privilege-escalation

windows-privilege-escalation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DorianGallo/hack-skills-local. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,872 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of windows-privilege-escalation, MIT.

A security guide to gaining higher permissions on a Windows computer after starting with a low-privilege account or shell.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for authorized Windows assessments involving service abuse, DLL hijacking, UAC bypasses, token abuse, and named-pipe impersonation.
Why use it?
It helps find misconfigured services, tokens, scheduled tasks, registry settings, or other local weaknesses that could grant administrator-level access.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit It is for authorized Windows assessments involving service abuse, DLL hijacking, UAC bypasses, token abuse, and named-pipe impersonation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doriangallo/hack-skills-local/windows-privilege-escalation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add DorianGallo/hack-skills-local --skill windows-privilege-escalation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DorianGallo/hack-skills-local

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,872 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00056 $0.02872
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01436
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00287

Measured 6d ago against content hash f9a84405529a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

windows-privilege-escalation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to windows-privilege-escalation — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/windows-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md · 329 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 329 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Windows Local Privilege Escalation — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert Windows privesc techniques. Covers token manipulation, Potato family, service misconfigurations, DLL hijacking, AlwaysInstallElevated, scheduled task abuse, registry autoruns, and named pipe impersonation. Base models miss nuanced privilege prerequisites and OS-version-specific constraints.

Before going deep, consider loading:

Advanced Reference

Also load TOKEN_POTATO_TRICKS.md when you need:

  • Detailed Potato family comparison (JuicyPotato → GodPotato evolution)
  • OS-version-specific exploit selection
  • Required privileges and protocol details per variant

Also load UAC_BYPASS_METHODS.md when you need:

  • UAC bypass technique matrix (fodhelper, eventvwr, sdclt, etc.)
  • Auto-elevate binary abuse
  • Mock trusted directory tricks

1. ENUMERATION CHECKLIST

System Context

whoami /all                        & REM Current user, groups, privileges
systeminfo                         & REM OS version, hotfixes, architecture
hostname                           & REM Machine name
net user %USERNAME%                & REM Group memberships

Token Privileges (Critical)

whoami /priv
Privilege Escalation Path
SeImpersonatePrivilege Potato family exploits (§2)
SeAssignPrimaryTokenPrivilege Token manipulation, Potato variants
SeDebugPrivilege Dump LSASS, inject into SYSTEM processes
SeBackupPrivilege Read any file (SAM/SYSTEM/NTDS.dit)
SeRestorePrivilege Write any file (DLL hijack, service binary)
SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege Take ownership of any object
SeLoadDriverPrivilege Load vulnerable kernel driver → kernel exploit

Read the full file on GitHub · 329 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 329 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f9a84405529a

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windows-privilege-escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository DorianGallo/hack-skills-local (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,872 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to windows-privilege-escalation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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