Privilege
Escalation is a process of action for assault or exploit any damage
or cracks, or flaws in a system or an operating system. in order to
get access to central systems that are usually protected. Or type of
network intrusion that takes advantage of programming errors or
design flaws to give the attacker access to the network and related
data and applications.
A. There are two types of privilege
escalation: vertical and horizontal.
vertical privilege requires
the attacker to give himself a higher right. This is usually
accomplished by performing a kernel-level operations that allow an
attacker to run unauthorized code.
Horizontal
privilege requires the attacker to use the same privilege level he
had been given, but assumes the identity of another user with the
same permissions. For example, someone gained access to online
banking accounts of others would be a horizontal privilege escalation
Example Privilege Escalation process to do:1. IG with nmap * suspicious look like port 10000 (webmin is sought)