hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse SKILL.md skillA
hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse from unboundcompute/security-agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse@git:20260908.e3ae18aPins git:20260908.e3ae18a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- unboundcompute/security-agent-skills
- Path
skills/hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260908.e3ae18a, committed Sep 8, 2026
- Size
- 10,541 bytes
- Repository stars
- 26
- License
- MIT
Hunt privilege escalation through Active Directory Certificate Services template and enrollment misconfiguration, where a low-privileged principal can enroll for a certificate that authenticates as a more privileged account, because a template lets the enrollee supply the subject, allows a client authentication use, has weak enrollment permissions, or the certificate authority accepts a requester-set identity. Use when a certificate authority issues templates for domain authentication and a…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Hunting ADCS certificate template abuse: when a standard user enrolls as a domain admin A certificate authority in a Windows domain issues certificates that clients then use to authenticate, and the identity a certificate carries is whatever the authority put in it. That is safe only when the authority decides the identity from the authenticated enrollee, never from what the enrollee asked for. A template that lets the requester supply the subject alternative name, combined with a use that permits client authentication and enrollment rights granted to ordinary users, lets a standard user request a certificate naming a domain administrator and then authenticate as that administrator. Other template settings weaken the same boundary: a flag that carries the requester's identity into the issued certificate, or enrollment permissions loose enough that any user obtains a template meant for privileged roles. The bug is a certificate whose identity the low-privileged enrollee, not the authority, decided. You hunt these by reading each template's enrollment rights, subject source, and permitted uses. ## When to use …
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How to install
mdr add unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse@sha256:629dc6da066dff10The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260908.e3ae18a, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 8, 2026.
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- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
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Source
unboundcompute/security-agent-skills · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2yzfh66fafbgm7h4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=unboundcompute/security-agent-skills/hunting-adcs-certificate-template-abuse GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/629dc6da066dff10ca20140de64136ffa4a33abbda994bffc10211bcaf18cfc7
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