The Complete Linux Privilege Escalation Course

Create a TryHackMe account by clicking join now, entering a username, email, and password, and completing the verification steps, then verify your email and explore your dashboard.

Join the Lynch Privilege Escalation Trial Hackney Room from lecture resources, then download the OpenVPN configuration and connect to the cloud lab network.

Insecure permissions on the ETSI password file enable root access and credential manipulation to reveal the flag in a lab setting.

Practice Linux privilege escalation by exploiting misconfigured sudo permissions to spawn a root shell via vim, nano, or find, referencing GTFOBins to elevate privileges and explore ld preload.

explore wildcard injection in cron jobs and show how a non-privileged user could manipulate scripts to add themselves to the sudoers file and gain root access.

Navigate to the home directory, inspect the VPN files directory, and read the OpenVPN file to retrieve credentials via cat and cut. Understand how improper permissions expose usernames and passwords.

Examine how LXD combines container and virtual machine capabilities with image-based Linux distributions, built on LXC, and how the LXD socket can expose root access.

Explain how the network file system enables remote file access, how misconfigurations can allow privilege escalation to root, and the attacker steps to exploit an NFS service.