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Clustered Points of Failure
<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>TL;DR</strong></em> – <em>Windows Server Failover Clusters share resource credentials. Compromising one cluster node results in complete compromise of the entire cluster.</em></p>
<h1 class="wp-block-heading is-style-h1" id="h-acknowledgments">Acknowledgments</h1>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The content I’m sharing here is the result of colla
MITRE ATT&CK techniques
Indicators of compromise
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- https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/scalability-day-falls-short/url
- https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/always-on-availability-groups-vs-failover-cluster/url
- https://dirkjanm.io/abusing-forgotten-permissions-on-precreated-computer-objects-in-active-directory/url
- https://eladshamir.com/2019/01/28/Wagging-the-Dog.htmlurl
- https://syfuhs.net/a-bit-about-kerberosurl
- https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdfurl
- https://web.archive.org/web/20220417063111/https://airbus-cyber-security.com/the-oxid-resolver-part-1-remote-enumeration-of-network-interfaces-without-any-authentication/url
- https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/abusing-dmsa-for-privilege-escalation-in-active-directoryurl
Original source: https://specterops.io/blog/2026/07/29/clustered-points-of-failure/