Linux privilege escalation with Python library hijacking

To demonstrate the action of elevating privileges using Python scripts, we created a sample script that imports some libraries.

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Introduction
In general, whenever an attacker is introduced inside an environment that has Python files, The options that the attacker can use to increase its access are limited. There are three methods that we will discover in the article. Some misconfigurations include write permissions, sudo privileges, and editing the path variable. …

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