Results for “privilege-escalation”

Elevate from a low-privilege user account to root access on a compromised Linux system by exploiting misconfigurations, vulnerable services, kernel exploits, and weak permissions.

Guides authorized Active Directory security research covering Kerberos attacks, AD CS vulnerabilities, BloodHound path analysis, NTLM relay, and domain privilege escalation techniques.

Map Active Directory attack paths and identify privilege escalation chains using BloodHound Community Edition for authorized security assessments.

Detect container escape attempts in real-time using Falco runtime security rules that monitor syscalls, file access, and privilege escalation.

Orchestrates multi-stage attack-path planning and execution across reconnaissance, initial access, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and impact assessment for authorized penetration testing.

Systematically test web applications for broken access control vulnerabilities including privilege escalation, missing function-level checks, and insecure direct object references.

Identify flaws in application business logic that allow price manipulation, workflow bypass, and privilege escalation beyond what automated scanners can detect.

Conduct authorized AWS penetration testing using Pacu to enumerate IAM configurations, discover privilege escalation paths, test credential harvesting, and validate security controls through systematic attack simulation.

Enumerate and audit GCP storage buckets and IAM policies using GCPBucketBrute and gcloud CLI to identify privilege escalation paths and overly permissive access.

Find over-permissive RBAC roles and service-account token abuse paths in Kubernetes using kubectl auth can-i, rbac-police, kubectl-who-can, and rakkess during authorized cluster security reviews.

Exploit misconfigured Active Directory Certificate Services ESC1 vulnerability to request certificates as high-privileged users and escalate domain privileges during authorized red team assessments.

Exploit Kerberos Constrained Delegation misconfigurations in Active Directory to impersonate privileged users via S4U2self and S4U2proxy extensions for lateral movement and privilege escalation.

Tests APIs for Broken Function Level Authorization (BFLA) vulnerabilities where regular users can invoke administrative functions or access privileged API endpoints by directly calling them.

Exploit privileged pods, host mounts, runC CVEs, and exposed Docker sockets to break out of a container and reach the underlying host during authorized container-security assessments.

Discover and exploit mass assignment vulnerabilities in REST APIs to escalate privileges, modify restricted fields, and bypass authorization controls by injecting unexpected parameters in API requests.

Assess cloud configuration risks including IAM privilege escalation, public storage exposure, network over-permissioning, and infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations.

Detect abuse of elevation control mechanisms including UAC bypass, sudo exploitation, and setuid/setgid manipulation by monitoring registry modifications, process elevation flags, and unusual parent-child process relationships.

Apply bottom-up and top-down role mining techniques to discover optimal RBAC roles from existing user-permission assignments, reducing role explosion and enforcing least privilege.

Conduct systematic reviews of privileged accounts to validate access rights, identify excessive permissions, and enforce least privilege across PAM infrastructure.

Audit Kubernetes RBAC configurations to identify overly permissive roles, wildcard permissions, dangerous bindings, service account abuse, and privilege escalation paths using kubectl, rbac-tool, KubiScan, and Kubeaudit.

Use to design or audit the executive escalation path for a major account — intake, ownership, communication cadence and follow-through — so escalations are resolved rather than merely attended. Trigger for "design our escalation process for key accounts", "an executive escalation went badly", "customer went to our CEO", red account war rooms, or escalations that get attention and then quietly stall.

Assess cloud infrastructure for security misconfigurations, IAM privilege escalation paths, S3 public exposure, open security group rules, and IaC security gaps across AWS, Azure, and GCP with MITRE ATT&CK mapping.

Detect abuse of service accounts through anomalous interactive logons, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and unauthorized access patterns.

Take over Active Directory user and computer accounts by writing alternate certificate keys to msDS-KeyCredentialLink (Shadow Credentials) with pyWhisker, Whisker, and Certipy, then authenticate via PKINIT.

Exploit Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) misconfigurations, specifically ESC1. By requesting a certificate based on a overly permissive template that allows the enrollee to supply a Subject Alternative Name (SAN), an attacker can impersonate highly privileged users (like Domain Admins) and seamlessly escalate privileges across the entire AD environment.

Detect authentication attacks, privilege escalation, persistence mechanisms, and lateral movement by analyzing Windows Security, System, and Sysmon event logs in Splunk using SPL queries mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Decision-grade entity research skill — produces a hypothesis-tested dossier on a specific company, person, nonprofit, or government org, not a generic profile. Forcing intake makes the user state their hypothesis upfront (what they already believe and want to verify or disprove) so the dossier tests it rather than confirms it. Output is an editable Word document (.docx) with verdict on the hypothesis, identity facts, 12-month activity timeline, network and reputation signals, red flags, conversation hooks tied to specific findings, and source-provenance audit log. Uses WebSearch + WebFetch + free APIs (SEC EDGAR, GitHub, ProPublica) as workhorses; optional BYOK MCPs enhance coverage. Use when the user asks for background research, diligence, or meeting prep on a specific entity (e.g., 'prep me for a meeting with [person/company]', 'due diligence on [company]'). Honors sensitivity exclusions for journalism + personal-vetting contexts.

Scan Kubernetes resource manifests with Kubesec to identify misconfigurations, privilege escalation risks, and deviations from security best practices.

Enumerate Active Directory service accounts, request Kerberos TGS tickets, and crack them offline to assess password strength and privilege escalation paths.

Routes security testing tasks to the correct vulnerability category, guiding recon, validation, privilege escalation, and chain building for web application and API security assessments.