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Linux Privilege EscalationLesson + challenge Live machineFree

Root of the Problem

A login is just the beginning. The real prize wears a crown.

You're handed a low-privilege SSH foothold. Enumerate the box, find a world-writable script that a root maintenance job executes on a schedule, hijack it, and escalate to real in-container root to read the flag.

Difficulty
Medium
Estimated time
40 min
Points
225 pts
Completions
Completed by 1 player
Authors
By Cyber Academy 4 U
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What you will learn

  • Work a low-privilege foothold methodically
  • Enumerate scheduled/root processes and writable paths
  • Recognise a writable file executed by a privileged process as a privesc primitive
  • Turn that into arbitrary root command execution

What is inside

  1. Task 1 · Root of the ProblemReading

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