RedirectionGuard: Mitigating unsafe junction traversal in Windows

As attackers continue to evolve, Microsoft is committed to staying ahead by not only responding to vulnerabilities, but also by anticipating and mitigating entire classes of threats. One such threat, filesystem redirection attacks, has been a persistent vector for privilege escalation. In response, we’ve developed and deployed a new mitigation in Windows 11 called RedirectionGuard.

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