Privilege Escalation

After getting a shell on a target system, the next goal is to escalate our privileges and take over more privileged users until we get the root or SYSTEM. This can involve taking advantage of misconfigured privileges and scheduled tasks, hijacking vulnerable libaries, exploiting vulnerable services running as another user and much more.

Successful privilege escalation, much like the initial foothold, requires thorough enumeration of the operating system, its users, permissions, services, as well as files available.