SUID exploitation
Self explanatory
SUID/Setuid stands for "set user ID upon execution", it is enabled by default in every Linux distributions. If a file with this bit is run, the uid will be changed by the owner one. If the file owner is root
, the uid will be changed to root
even if it was executed from user bob
. SUID bit is represented by an s
.
find / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null
find / -uid 0 -perm -4000 -type f 2>/dev/null
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