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Privilege escalation - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Assumption, Beatification, Canonization, Deification, Elevation, Erection, Exaltation, Height, Uplift, Uplifting

Privilege escalation is the act of leveraging a bug in an application to gain access to resources which normally would have been protected from an application or user operating under their standard privileges. The end result of leveraging this bug is that the application performs actions that are running within a higher Security Context than intended by the Application Developer or System Administrator.

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