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• Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation

This executable provides a mechanism for privilege escalation by indirectly enabling elevated privileges, such as setting the SUID bit or modifying the ownership of another executable.

• Comment

  This can be run with elevated privileges to change permissions (6 denotes the SUID bits) and then read, write, or execute a file.

  Sudo

  This function is performed by the privileged user if executed via sudo because the acquired privileges are not dropped.

  Remarks

  If there are environment variables involved, they must be passed via sudo VAR=value ... or exported then sudo -E ....

  chmod 6777 /path/to/input-file

  SUID

  This function is performed by the privileged user if the executable has the SUID bit set and the right ownership because the effective privileges are not dropped.

  chmod 6777 /path/to/input-file

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