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LegacyHive: Nightmare-Eclipse’s Latest Zero-Day Drop with a Stripped PoC

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Feed Name: LevelBlue SpiderLabs Blog

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-20

Date Updated: 2026-07-20

Author: Pauline Bolaños

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Researcher 'Nightmare-Eclipse' publicly released LegacyHive, an unpatched Local Privilege Escalation in Windows User Profile that can load other users' registry hives (including admins) and expose application data and Explorer history; the PoC was intentionally stripped, Microsoft has not released a patch, and the researcher previously released RoguePlanet (SYSTEM race condition) and GreatXML (BitLocker bypass).

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