# Linux Privilege Escalation

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### Low privilege user?

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OK we are inside a machine with low-level privileges, what can we do?

Local Recon of course! By Hand? or Automated? or with one command? :D

### Escalating Manually

I usually start by hand there are some easy tricks we can do like checking Sudo vulnerability, cron jobs, SUID binaries, NFS, local users, and capabilities.

### Escalating with Automatic Recon

LinPEAS

Read more about Linux privilege escalation here:

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### Escalate using Metasploit

Remember Metasploit is your friend it has everything you need to escalate privileges on 80% of the machines online, learn to use it!