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Sudo

Don't forget to check sudo to see if you can execute any commands with any privilege besides your user level Show which commands sudo allows you to run sudo -l

Find

The following commands are helpful when looking to exploit local applications for privilege escalation Finding world writeable directories find / -perm 777

Find setuid files find / -perm +4000 -type f

Find root setuid files find / -perm +4000 -uid 0 -type f