Chkrootkit Local Privilege Escalation
Description
Chkrootkit before 0.50 will run any executable file named /tmp/update as root, allowing a trivial privilege escalation. WfsDelay is set to 24h, since this is how often a chkrootkit scan is scheduled by default.
Author(s)
- Thomas Stangner
- Julien "jvoisin" Voisin
Platform
Unix
Architectures
cmd
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use exploit/unix/local/chkrootkit
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > exploit
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