Linux Privilege Escalation

These examples try to solve the following scenario:

• the attacker has low-level (non-root) access to a virtual machine through SSH.
• they know their username and the respective password
• and want to become the all powerful root user (uid=0)

Example Implementations

These examples are currently available through our github repository:

Example	Domain	Summary	Described in
initial example	linux priv-esc	good first example	initial post, tools and configuration
react agent	linux priv-esc	use langgraph to reduce code	Using create_react_agent
plan-and-execute	linux priv-esc	multi-layer planing	Adding Plan-and-Execute Planner