active-directory-acl-abuse

active-directory-acl-abuse is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,683 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of active-directory-acl-abuse, MIT.

A security-testing guide for permissions in Active Directory, Microsoft's system for managing Windows users, computers, and groups. It explains how overly broad access-control entries can let a user change groups, policies, credentials, or other directory objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review directory permissions, group membership, policies, credential-protection settings, and BloodHound-mapped routes to greater access.
Why use it?
It helps uncover privilege-escalation paths that arise from permission chains rather than from a single obvious administrator account. It also describes using BloodHound, a tool that maps relationships and attack paths in a domain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review directory permissions, group membership, policies, credential-protection settings, and BloodHound-mapped routes to greater access.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/securitytalent/bugskill-ai/active-directory-acl-abuse
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 SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai --skill active-directory-acl-abuse
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,683 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 $0.00054 $0.02683
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01073
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00268

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0ac12347c7b2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

active-directory-acl-abuse 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 1mo 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 active-directory-acl-abuse — 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.

Awesome-Claude-Code-Agent-Skills/04-Active-Directory-and-Windows/active-directory-acl-abuse/SKILL.md · 296 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 296 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: AD ACL Abuse — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert AD ACL abuse techniques. Covers BloodHound enumeration, dangerous ACEs (GenericAll, WriteDACL, WriteOwner, etc.), DCSync, shadow credentials, targeted kerberoasting, group manipulation, LAPS, and GPO abuse. Base models miss complex ACL chain exploitation and Cypher query patterns.

Before going deep, consider loading:

Advanced Reference

Also load BLOODHOUND_PATHS.md when you need:

  • Common BloodHound attack paths with Cypher queries
  • Custom Neo4j queries for finding complex chains
  • Data collection and ingestion tips

1. BLOODHOUND ENUMERATION

Data Collection

# SharpHound (from Windows, domain-joined)
SharpHound.exe -c all --outputdirectory C:\temp --zipfilename bh.zip

# bloodhound-python (from Linux)
bloodhound-python -d domain.com -u user -p password -c all -dc DC01.domain.com -ns DC_IP

# Specific collection methods
SharpHound.exe -c DCOnly          # Fastest — only DC queries
SharpHound.exe -c Session         # Session data only (run periodically)
SharpHound.exe -c All,GPOLocalGroup  # Include GPO analysis

Key BloodHound Queries (Built-in)

  • "Find all Domain Admins"
  • "Shortest Paths to Domain Admins from Owned Principals"
  • "Find Principals with DCSync Rights"
  • "Shortest Paths to Unconstrained Delegation Systems"
  • "Find computers where Domain Users are Local Admin"

2. DANGEROUS ACE TYPES

ACE Effect on Users Effect on Groups Effect on Computers
GenericAll Change password, set SPN, modify attributes Add members RBCD, LAPS read, all attributes
GenericWrite Set SPN, modify attributes, shadow creds Add members RBCD, shadow credentials
WriteDACL Grant yourself any permission Same Same
WriteOwner Take ownership → then WriteDACL Same Same
ForceChangePassword Reset password without knowing old N/A N/A
AddMember N/A Add self/others to group N/A
AllExtendedRights Force change password, read LAPS N/A Read LAPS, BitLocker keys
ReadLAPSPassword N/A N/A Read local admin password
WriteSPN Set SPN → targeted kerberoast N/A N/A

Read the full file on GitHub · 296 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 296 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 0ac12347c7b2

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active-directory-acl-abuse is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,683 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to active-directory-acl-abuse, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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