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Detecting ADCS Privilege Escalation

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Feed Name: Black Hills Infosec Blog

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2025-07-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-27

Author: BHIS

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This blog explains how misconfigurations in Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS) can enable privilege escalation (e.g., ESC1) by allowing low-privileged accounts to request certificates for privileged users, and it provides step-by-step guidance to enable ADCS auditing and build Microsoft Sentinel detections (KQL queries, alert rules) for relevant event IDs and behaviors.

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