linux-privilege-escalation - Linux Privilege Escalation Assessment and Exploitation
Conduct systematic assessments on Linux systems to identify and exploit misconfigurations, vulnerable services, and security weaknesses to escalate privileges.
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Updated: 2026-09-24Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Enumerate basic system information
- Enumerate user and permission contexts
- Enumerate network and listening services
- Enumerate running processes and services
- Deploy automated enumeration scripts
- Search and execute kernel exploits
- Exploit sudo misconfigurations
- Exploit SUID binaries
- Exploit Linux capabilities
- Exploit writable cron scripts
- Perform PATH variable hijacking
- Exploit NFS misconfigurations
Inputs
- Low-privilege shell access
- Target Linux system
- Attacker machine for payload hosting
- Network access for reverse shells
Outputs
- Root shell access
- Privilege escalation path documentation
- System enumeration findings report
- Remediation recommendations
- Screenshots and output logs
Requirements
- Command execution permissions
- Linux filesystem permission knowledge
- GCC compiler for custom exploits
- Enumeration and exploitation tools