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		WirelessGigabit on Feb 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TCG TPM2.0 implementations vulnerable to memory co... Hard to gage whether on Windows one has access to these APIs without being an Administrator.

Cyph0n on Feb 28, 2023 | [–]

I’m a total security noob, but I’d wager that privilege escalation is a piece of cake relative to key extraction from a TPM.

AstralStorm on March 2, 2023 | | [–]

Not on fully secured Windows with Device Guard, Credential Guard, HVCI and mitigations on it is not.

The defaults are lax garbage though.

gerdesj on March 1, 2023 | [–]

The article says "authenticated user".

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