Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

Chapter 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Using WMIC to find privilege-escalation vulnerabilities
• Sensitive-information gathering
• Unquoted service-path exploitation
• Service permissions issues
• Misconfigured software installations/insecure file permissions
• Linux privilege escalation

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we looked at how one can exploit into the service and gain access to the server as a user with either a low or system privilege. In this chapter, we will look at how to exploit a low-privilege user to an escalated user - even the system user in this case. We will be covering escalation techniques for both Windows and Linux in this chapter. Usually in a network, when a server is ...