Course Overview
This course focuses on Linux Privilege Escalation tactics and techniques designed to help you improve your privilege escalation game. Students should take this course if they are interested in:
- Gaining a better understanding of privilege escalation techniques
- Improving Capture the Flag skillset
- Preparing for certifications such as the PNPT, OSCP, eCPPT, CEH, etc.
Requirements
- Prior beginner hacking knowledge preferred
- Prior virtualization knowledge preferred
- Access to a Windows machine is preferred
What will I learn?
1) How to enumerate Linux systems manually and with tools
2) A multitude of privilege escalation techniques, including:
- Kernel Exploits
- Password Hunting
- File Permissions
- Sudo Attacks
- Shell Escaping
- Intended Functionality
- LD_PRELOAD
- CVE-2019-14287
- CVE-2019-18634
- SUID Attacks
- Shared Object Injection
- Binary Symlinks
- Environment Variables
- Capabilities Attacks
- Scheduled Tasks
- NFS
- Docker
3) Tons of hands-on experience, including:
- 11 vulnerable machines total
- Capstone challenge
- Custom lab with no installation required
Deo Martinez
"Heath does a great job explaining the concepts of pen testing and follows it up with hands-on examples. Its easy to follow his methodology and he gives plenty of advice on some of the common tools to use based on the findings illustrated in his course. Great job, Heath!"
Jacob Surles
"This course is amazing. I have taken other privilege escalation courses and none of them were even close to as engaging and informative as this course. I highly recommend this course."
Florin Galaftion
"Excellent ! The Combo Windows/Linux privilege escalation courses was a great investment. Worth every penny and more! The CTFs were well chosen and included a full walk-thru of the techniques presented in lectures. Way to go Heath ! Looking for more coming from you in the near future !"
Course Curriculum - 6.5 Hours
- Sudo Overview (1:15)
- Escalation via Sudo Shell Escaping (6:39)
- Escalation via Intended Functionality (4:41)
- Escalation via LD_PRELOAD (7:01)
- Challenge Overview (1:18)
- Challenge Walkthrough (12:44)
- CVE-2019-14287 Overview (3:14)
- Escalation via CVE-2019-14287 (2:35)
- Overview and Escalation via CVE-2019-18634 (6:42)
About the Instructor
Hi everyone! My name is Heath Adams, but I also go by "The Cyber Mentor" on social media. I am the founder and CEO of TCM Security, an ethical hacking and cybersecurity consulting company. While I am an ethical hacker by trade, I love to teach! I have taught courses to over 170,000 students on multiple platforms, including Udemy, YouTube, Twitch, and INE.
I am currently OSCP, OSWP, eCPPTX, eWPT, CEH, Pentest+, CCNA, Linux+, Security+, Network+, and A+ certified.
I'm also a husband, animal dad, tinkerer, and military veteran. I hope you enjoy my courses.
Follow Heath on Social Media:
LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/in/heathadams
Twitter - https://twitter.com/thecybermentor
YouTube - https://youtube.com/c/thecybermentor
Twitch - https://twitch.tv/thecybermentor
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