Rachit Arora

Linux Privilege Escalation

Feb 11, 2024

Manual Enumeration

Find SUID and GUID files
find / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null
find / -perm -g=s -type f 2>/dev/null
find / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null

#Find all the SUID/SGID executables on the Debian VM:
find / -type f -a \( -perm -u+s -o -perm -g+s \) -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null

Quick and easy wins

Shell binaries with SUID bit set on them
ls -al /bin/bash
ls -al /bin/sh
ls -al /bin/dash
SSH keys
find / -name id_rsa 2> /dev/null
find / -maxdepth 5 -name .ssh -exec grep -rnw {} -e 'PRIVATE' ; 2> /dev/null
Find commands
find . -name flag1.txt
find /home -name flag1.txt
find / -type d -name config
#find files with the 777 permissions (files readable, writable, and executable by all users)
find / -type f -perm 0777
# find executable files
find / -perm a=x
find /home -user frank
#find files that were modified in the last 10 days
find / -mtime 10
#find files that were accessed in the last 10 day
find / -atime 10
#find files changed within the last hour (60 minutes)
find / -cmin -60
#find files accesses within the last hour (60 minutes)
find / -amin -60
# find files with a 50 MB size
find / -size 50M
Folders and files that can be written to or executed from:
#writeable
find / -perm -o w -type d 2>/dev/null
#executable
find / -perm -o x -type d 2>/dev/null

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