Using Social Engineering for Privilege Escalation
Prologue While exploring devices on my college network, I managed to gain Remote Desktop Access to a server for one of our institute’s websites. The method I used to obtain access to the interface is out of the scope of this blog. Upon gaining access, I found that the server was running Ubuntu. The terminal displayed user as the current user. I added my public key to /home/user/.ssh/authorized_keys and checked the SSH connection. With SSH access confirmed, it was time to escalate our privileges to the root user. ...