Vertical escalation

In this recipe, we will look at ways in which we can gain access to a root account on a comprised box. The key to successful escalation is by gathering as much as information possible about the system.

How to do it...

1. The first step of rooting any box would be to check whether there are any publicly available local root exploits.
2. We can use scripts such as Linux Exploit Suggester for this. It is a script that's built in Perl. We can specify the kernel version and it will show us the possible publicly available exploits we can use to gain root privileges.
3. The script can be downloaded by using the following command:

git clone https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester.git 

We can see the...