It can be used to break out from restricted environments by spawning an interactive system shell.
tmux
Provided to have enough permissions to access the socket.
tmux -S /path/to/socket_name
It reads data from files, it may be used to do privileged reads or disclose files outside a restricted file system.
The file is read and parsed as a tmux
configuration file, part of the first invalid line is returned in an error message.
LFILE=file_to_read
tmux -f $LFILE
If the binary is allowed to run as superuser by sudo
, it does not drop the elevated privileges and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain privileged access.
sudo tmux