An unquoted Environment Variable path in a Scheduled Task that runs as system Unquoted paths are abused frequently on engagements. Normally an attacker would see an unquoted service path, not an unquoted schedule task path. What makes this unique is that it is an environment variable that has a space in it that allows for an attacker to abuse it. The key is, if the path is unquoted then Windows sees the space character in the path as a delimiter and will then search for pr

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