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Kali Linux Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Cookbook Effective penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781784390303
Length 438 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Corey Schultz Corey Schultz
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Installing Kali and the Lab Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance and Scanning 3. Vulnerability Analysis 4. Finding Exploits in the Target 5. Social Engineering 6. Password Cracking 7. Privilege Escalation 8. Wireless Specific Recipes 9. Web and Database Specific Recipes 10. Maintaining Access

Local Linux system check for privilege escalation 

In this recipe, we will use a Python script to check the system for vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation.

Getting ready

Let's ensure the following prerequisites:

  • Your Metasploitable machine is connected to the NAT network (remove it immediately after this lab)
  • Your Metasploitable machine is powered up

How to do it...

In this recipe we will try and discover a vulnerability that will allow us to escalate privileges in linux:

  1. Log in to the Metasploitable machine with the username msfadmin and...
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