Collaborate Disseminate
I have been getting random SOS countdowns triggered on my phone. Every time this happens, a pop-up appears telling me that unknown numbers have been temporarily unblocked. The most recent instance was immediately followed by a call from a … Continue reading Is Android SOS being used as privilege escalation or settings bypass?
Increasingly sophisticated adversaries create a significant challenge as organizations increasingly use Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) to deliver applications and services. This mesh of cloud-based applications and services creates new complexities for security teams. But attackers need only one success, while defenders need to succeed 100% of the time. Organizations are contending with […]
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In some methods of privilege escalation, if you want to be the root user, you write like this:
setuid(0);
setgid(0);
And this is because the uid and gid of the root user is 0
id root
uid=0 (root) gid=0 (root) groups=0 (root)
But imagin… Continue reading How to switch user instead of using uid? [closed]
An organisations has multiple service tiers. One of the services in a core tier exposes APIs to the tier above. The core tier services do RBAC, consequently an end customer token is required in order to access their APIs.
There are 2 cat… Continue reading RBAC for system to system access
Should trust policies for AWS Lambda be narrowly scoped, and how can this be implemented (e.g. using Terraform)?
Using Terraform I ran into a cyclic dependency problem as follows: an AWS Lambda function resource must specify an IAM role. A… Continue reading Should an AWS Lambda trust-policy be narrowly scoped?
I’ve been trying to get admin on my own pc for probably like 4 years now and I still can’t find anything. I tried to do the utilman swap with cmd but then literally my av blocked it and then it deleted my utilman.
I’ve also tried running s… Continue reading How to gain admin access on windows [closed]
I have noticed that both browsers Firefox and Chromium on linux do open the file /proc/self/mem for reading. No other program on my system reads this file, as far as I can tell.
/proc/self/mem is notorious for being vector for endless priv… Continue reading what are legitimate reason for a program to need access to /proc/self/mem [migrated]
Suppose I have an Admin account and a normal user account. There is some functionality that is only accessible to the admin only, like promoting other users. In this scenario, I captured a request from the admin when the admin is promoting… Continue reading Is this considered Privilege Escalation?
My college has a website which allows students to submit coding assignments by running them on an Online IDE which checks the output against several test cases.
I noticed by running system(“whoami”) that the code is running as root.
When I… Continue reading Online Judge running on root [duplicate]
My question is same as this one,
A php script cron job running as root, php script includes other php files those are editable, ps aux shows script running as root but if I do system(‘whoami > output.txt’); it shows apache
In Detailed s… Continue reading php Dropping Privileges