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🐧 Linux Pri Escalation for Pentesters

A practical Linux Pri Escalation cheat sheet designed for penetration testers, OSCP aspirants, red teamers, and CTF players to understand how attackers escalate pri on Linux systems after gaining initial access.

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🐧 Linux Pri Escalation Techniques

| # | Topic | Description | Article |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🔑 Abusing Sudo Rights | Escalate pri by abusing misconfigured sudo permissions | Read Article |
| 2 | ⚙️ SUID Binaries | Exploit SUID binaries to execute commands with elevated pri | Read Article |
| 3 | 🧩 Linux Capabilities | Abuse Linux capabilities assigned to binaries for pri escalation | Read Article |
| 4 | 📦 LXD Pri Escalation | Escalate pri using LXD container misconfiguration | Read Article |
| 5 | 🐳 Docker Pri Escalation | Gain root access container misconfiguration | Read Article |
| 6 | ⏰ Exploiting Cron Jobs | Abuse scheduled cron jobs to execute malicious commands | Read Article |
| 7 | 📝 Writable /etc/passwd File | Escalate pri by modifying the /etc/passwd file | Read Article |
| 8 | 🌐 Misconfigured NFS | Exploit NFS misconfigurations to gain root pri | Read Article |
| 9 | 🃏 Exploiting Wildcard | Abuse wildcard expansion in scripts to escalate pri | Read Article |
|10 | 🧠 LD_PRELOAD | Inject malicious libraries to escalate pri | Read Article |
|11 | 🛠️ PATH Exploit | Exploit PATH misconfiguration to run malicious binaries | Read Article |
|12 | 🐍 Python Library Hijacking | Hijack Python libraries used by pri scripts | Read Article |
|13 | 🔓 Polkit (C) | Exploit Polkit to gain root pri | Read Article |
|14 | 💣 PwnKit (C) | Exploit pkexec to escalate pri | Read Article |
|15 | 🧨 DirtyPipe (C) | Exploit Linux kernel DirtyPipe for pri escalation | Read Article |

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技术要点

该项目属于CTF思路方向的开源资源，代码结构清晰，适合安全研究人员学习参考。项目围绕This cheatsheet is aimed at the OSCP aspirants to help them understand the various methods of Escalating Privilege on Linux based Machines and CTFs with examples.展开，提供了可运行的实现，对理解相关安全机制、工具原理与攻防技术具有较高的研究价值。

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3. 按照 README 中的步骤完成配置与部署。

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