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Privilege escalation

This executable provides a mechanism for privilege escalation by indirectly enabling elevated privileges, such as setting the SUID bit or modifying the ownership of another executable.

CommentThis allows to dump password hashes from the /etc/shadow file.
Sudo
This function is performed by the privileged user if executed via sudo because the acquired privileges are not dropped.
RemarksIf there are environment variables involved, they must be passed via sudo VAR=value ... or exported then sudo -E ....
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getent shadow
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SUID
This function is performed by the privileged user if the executable has the SUID bit set and the right ownership because the effective privileges are not dropped.
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getent shadow
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