linux-sudo-suid-capabilities
Fail
Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jul 6, 2026
Risk Level: HIGHCOMMAND_EXECUTIONDATA_EXFILTRATIONCREDENTIALS_UNSAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSREMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION
Full Analysis
- [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: The skill provides exhaustive instructions for gaining root access through sudo escapes, SUID/SGID manipulation, and capabilities abuse. It specifically includes environment variable manipulation patterns (LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONPATH, BASH_ENV) and PATH hijacking techniques to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.- [DATA_EXFILTRATION]: Facilitates unauthorized data access and exfiltration through multiple reverse shell patterns (e.g., /dev/tcp redirects and GDB process injection) and instructions to read restricted system files.- [CREDENTIALS_UNSAFE]: Directly targets sensitive authentication data, providing commands to read /etc/shadow, harvest SSH private keys from /root/.ssh, and modify /etc/passwd or /etc/sudoers to create backdoor root-level users.- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: Directs the agent to fetch exploit code from multiple third-party GitHub repositories for various vulnerabilities, including Baron Samedit (CVE-2021-3156), PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034), and sudo token injection tools.- [REMOTE_CODE_EXECUTION]: Instructions include the generation, compilation (via gcc), and execution of custom C source code, shared objects (.so), and Python payloads on the target system to achieve privilege escalation.
Recommendations
- AI detected serious security threats
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