Hot Potato – Windows Privilege EscalationPrivilege Escalation on Windows 7,8,10, Server 2008, Server 2012 … and a new network attack How it works Hot Potato (aka: Potato) takes advantage of known issues in Windows to gain local privilege escalation in default configurations, namely NTLM relay (specifically HTTP->SMB relay) and NBNS spoofing. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because a similar technique was disclosed by the guys at Go
