BrokenPipe
Steam Client Service Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Details
- External ID
- 1370507931
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- BrokenPipe
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 14, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 198
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9632334101972841
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- security exploits and system hacking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local privilege escalation exploit for steam client service
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No This is an offensive security vulnerability exploit targeting Windows IPC mechanisms (named pipes) and Windows service privilege escalation in the Steam Client Service.
What it would actually take: Developing this exploit requires Windows internals reverse engineering (using IDA Pro/Ghidra), auditing Windows DACLs, token impersonation vulnerabilities, and race conditions in Named Pipes. It requires writing low-level C/Win32 API code to exploit high-privilege service interactions (NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) without crashing the daemon.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 354 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 355 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- CVE-2026-43786 · github · 2026-09-21 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- BigDiskBuster · github · 2026-09-19 · 183 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- cve-2026-41940-PoC · github · 2026-09-16 · 528 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- asuka4scape-source-vulnerabilities · github · 2026-09-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- CVE-2026-20817 · github · 2026-09-28 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- CVE-2026-41651 · github · 2026-09-28 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- CVE-2026-84543 · github · 2026-09-24 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- GitLabSniper · github · 2026-09-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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