Privileges Escalation Techniques (Basic to Advanced) in Linux

Part-4

Check the previous parts of this series HERE

In this part of this series, I’m going to cover 3 more techniques.

10. Privilege Escalation: Cron Jobs (Script full/Absolute Path Not Defined)

Theory

Cron (daemon/service) is used to schedule a Process or task to execute automatically at a specific time or action (same as task scheduler in windows). By default, they run with the privilege of their owners. (Means who set up that particular job). Cron job configurations are stored …

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