"To accomplish great things, one must escalate his privilege to the highest level not just through actions, but also through dreams."
Privilege escalation is the process of going from a relatively low level of access rights to gaining the privileges of an administrator, the system, or even greater access privileges. It allows the penetration tester to own all aspects of a system's operations. More importantly, obtaining some access privileges will allow the tester to control all systems across a network. As vulnerability becomes more difficult to find and exploit, there has been a significant amount of research conducted in privilege escalation as a means of ensuring a successful penetration test.
In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:
- Common escalation methodology
- Local system escalation
- DLL injection
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