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infn8loop • today at 8:35 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I suspect some possible relation to SignDrop or attempts to patch it.

SignDrop is an unpatched Windows zero-day local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit that allows a standard user to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges by abusing the Common Log File System (CLFS) kernel driver (clfs.sys). Security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as MSNightmare or Nightmare Eclipse) published a detailed technical write-up and functional proof-of-concept (PoC) code on GitHub on November 10, 2026.


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antx • today at 9:20 PM

Not impossible, but very unlikely. CLFS isn’t remotely reachable, it's a kernel driver reached through local API calls and has no network listener. AFAIK the historical CLFS CVEs are all rated as local.

stackghost • today at 8:46 PM

Are you finding these vulns with Mythos/Daybreak or some other tool? Chinese models perhaps?