Linux Sudo Privilege Escalation Methods — 7 Techniques + GTFOBins Guide

I find a sudo misconfiguration on at least half of the Linux systems I assess. Not because organisations are careless — most have intentional sudo rules for legitimate operational reasons. The problem is that those rules were written by someone who understood the intended use case but didn't know about GTFOBins. Every sudo rule that lets a user run a binary capable of spawning a shell, reading arbitrary files, or writing to privileged paths is a potential privilege escalation path.…

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