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Overview

Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) manages PKI certificates. Misconfigurations enable domain escalation. Research: “Certified Pre-Owned” by SpecterOps.

Tools

Certify (Windows)

Certipy (Linux)


Vulnerability Summary


General Exploitation Flow


Authenticate with Certificate

Certipy

Returns NT hash via U2U.

Rubeus


Quick Reference