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CVE-2023-35359 is a Windows local elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the kernel object path resolution logic affecting a class of bugs tied to impersonation and per-session device maps. The issue arises when a low-privileged user can manipulate path resolution so that privileged Windows components operating under impersonation follow an attacker-controlled fake system drive root instead of the real system device map. In the described attack pattern, the attacker remaps the effective C: drive for the impersonated context to a user-writable fake root using per-session device maps and symlink techniques. Privileged services such as File History Service and BITS may then resolve files, manifests, or executable paths through attacker-controlled locations. This can enable activation context cache poisoning, path traversal abuse, or CreateProcess misuse depending on the affected component. Microsoft assigned the same CVE to multiple vulnerabilities of this type and addressed the class in August 2023 with a kernel-side change in object name lookup so that relevant file-object resolution uses the system device map rather than an impersonated device map.
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