Kali Linux Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

We will now elevate privileges in Linux:

1. Start by finding the IP address of the VulnOS2 image – we can use a simple nmap scan to find it. Open a terminal window by clicking on the terminal icon.
2. Enter the following commands to run a quick nmap for the host-only network of 192.168.56.0/24:

nmap -T4 -F 192.168.56.0/24

3. From our output, we can see that the address of the machine is 192.168.56.104:

Kali console output

We are going to use this exploit through SSH access to the device. Local access to the device will work; however, ...