linux-privilege-escalation

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Audited by Socket on Sep 22, 2026

2 alerts found:

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SecurityMEDIUM
SKILL.md

SUSPICIOUS. The skill’s capabilities are internally consistent with its stated purpose, but that purpose is inherently offensive: it equips an AI agent to enumerate, exploit, escalate privileges, modify target files, and open reverse shells. The remote-tooling flow is risky but partially verifiable for PEASS-ng; the bigger concern is disproportionate autonomy for an agent skill focused on exploitation. This is not confirmed malware, but it is a high-risk offensive security skill.

Confidence: 92%Severity: 84%
SecurityMEDIUM
references/detailed-guide.md

This fragment is an offensive Linux privilege-escalation and post-exploitation guide containing credential-access, persistence, privileged-shell, and reverse-shell instructions. It does not itself demonstrate automatic npm package malware because it is presented as documentation and command examples, but execution of the commands could compromise a system. The fragment has high security risk as operational attack guidance, low evidence of embedded package malware, and no meaningful obfuscation.

Confidence: 98%Severity: 93%
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Analyzed At
Sep 22, 2026, 08:48 AM
Package URL
pkg:socket/skills-sh/sickn33%2Fagentic-awesome-skills%2Flinux-privilege-escalation%2F@b9752e8201b4351216bb907b7851f21b27496310f0b5f4d3b093e1b67c0cbbb8
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