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Windows 11 Escalation Vulnerability Let Attackers Gain Admin Access Within 300 Milliseconds (cybersecuritynews.com)

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 weeks ago

300ms refers to the window of time that the vulnerable DLL has elevated privileges and therefore the window that an attacker has to exploit it.

It doesn’t mean that the whole compromise from the start of an exploit chain takes 300ms. Badly written (clickbait) headline.