linux-privilege-escalation

Execute systematic privilege escalation assessments on Linux systems to identify and exploit misconfigurations, vulnerable services, and security weaknesses that allow elevation from low-privilege user access to root-level control. This skill enables comprehensive enumeration and exploitation of kernel vulnerabilities, sudo misconfigurations, SUID binaries, cron jobs, capabilities, PATH hijacking, and NFS weaknesses. Gather fundamental system details for vulnerability research: Deploy automated scripts for comprehensive enumeration: Transfer scripts to target system: Reference for exploitation commands: When env_keep includes LD_PRELOAD: Reference GTFOBins for SUID exploitation: Scenario : User has sudo rights for find command Scenario : base64 binary has SUID bit set Scenario : Root cron job executes writable script This skill is applicable to execute the workflow or actions described in the overview. - Low-privilege shell access to target Linux system - Ability to execute commands (interactive or semi-interactive shell) - Network access for reverse shell connections (if needed) - Attacker machine for payload hosting and receiving shells - Understanding of Linux filesystem permissions and ownership - Familiarity with common Linux utilities and scripting - Knowledge of kernel versions and associated vulnerabilities - Basic understanding of compilation (gcc) for custom exploits...