hacktricks/linux-unix/linux-privilege-escalation-checklist.md

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Checklist for privilege escalation in Linux

Checklist - Linux Privilege Escalation

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Vulnerable Kernel?

• Search for kernel exploits using scripts linux.exploit-suggester.sh, inux-exploit-suggester2.pl, linuxprivcheckser.py
• Use Google to search for kernel exploits
• Use searchsploit to search for kernel exploits
• Check if the sudo version is vulnerable

Vulnerable Processes?

• Is any unknown software running?
• Is any software with more privileges that it should have running?
• Search for exploits for running processes specially if running of versions
• Can you read some interesting process memory where passwords could be saved?

Known users/passwords?

• Try to use every known password that you have discovered previously to login with each possible user. Try to login also without password.

Interesting Groups?

• Check if you belong to any group that can grant you root rights.

Weird scheduled jobs?

• Is the PATH being modified by some cron and you can write in it?
• Some modifiable script is being executed or is inside modifiable folder?
• Is some cron script calling other script that is modifiable by you? or using wildcards?
• Have you detected that some script could be being executed very frequently? every 1, 2 or 5 minutes

Any sudo command?

• Can you execute any comand with sudo? Can you use it to READ, WRITE or EXECUTE anything as root?
• Is some wildcard used?
• Is the binary specified without path?
• Is env_keep+=LD_PRELOAD?

Any weird suid command?

• SUID any interesting command? Can you use it to READ, WRITE or EXECUTE anything as root?
• Is some wildcard used?
• Is the SUID binary executing some other binary without specifying the path? or specifying it?
• Is it trying to load .so from writable folders?

Weird capabilities?

• Has any binary any uncommon capability?

Open Shell sessions?

• screen?
• tmux?

Can you read some sensitive data?

• Can you read some interesting files? files with passwords, \*\_history, backups...

Can you write important files?

• Are you able to write files that could grant you more privileges? service conf files, shadow,a script that is executed by other users, libraries...

Internal open ports?

• You should check if any undiscovered service is running in some port/interface. Maybe it is running with more privileges that it should or it is vulnerable to some kind of privilege escalation vulnerability.

Can you sniff some passwords in the network?

• Can you sniff and get passwords from the network?

Any service missconfigurated? NFS? belongs to docker or lxd?

1. Any well known missconfiguration? [**NFS no\_root\_squash**](privilege-escalation/nfs-no_root_squash-misconfiguration-pe.md)

Any weird executable in path?

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