Privilege Escalation

Summary

Moving from limited access to higher privileges (user to admin/root) after initial compromise — exploiting misconfigurations, unpatched software, or weak permissions discovered during Phase 3.

How to Learn This

1Practice privilege escalation on a deliberately vulnerable practice VM.
2Learn common Linux and Windows privilege escalation vectors (SUID binaries, weak service permissions).
3Understand why privilege escalation is often the pivot point in a real attack chain.

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