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Abusing Active Directory Certificate Services – Part 2

ID: 3626765c-9d08-597b-9755-7a641bc2ee13

STIX ID: report--3626765c-9d08-597b-9755-7a641bc2ee13

Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2023-10-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This report demonstrates ESC4 — an ADCS certificate template permissions misconfiguration that permits non-admin Domain Users to modify templates and create certificates for other accounts (including Domain Administrators) using Certipy, providing a path to full domain compromise; it provides PoC commands, cleanup instructions, detection event IDs, hardening recommendations, and notes a Microsoft partial patch.

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