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Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access throughout the environment
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Does the bash shell function import feature inevitably give rise to privilege escalation pro...
"Can this give rise to an escalation of privilege in combination with a setuid executable...?"
You can't have setuid scripts on GNU so let's assume a setuid binary directly calling a Bash script. Not …
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Server for School Coding Assignments
What you need is relatively simple: you need to ensure that your students' unprivileged accounts are well confined. If you don't have a graphical environment involved, your situation is relatively sim …
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Can the root user be removed from a *nix system to prevent privilege-escalation?
As argued by others, it makes no sense to "remove" the root UID (which is represented on UNIX as the UID 0). I would go even further and state that it makes no sense to freeze a system into not having …
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Escalating from Apache shell to root
You are right that you gain access to the UID of the process/script you exploited. In the case of the Apache identity with no mandatory access control and no proper separation of developer and apache …
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