The first step of rooting any box would be to check whether there are any publically available local root exploits:
- We can use scripts such as Linux Exploit Suggester. It is a script built in Perl where we can specify the kernel version and it will show us the possible publicly-available exploits we can use to gain root privileges. The script can be downloaded from https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester:
git clone https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester.git
- Now we go to the directory using the cd command:
cd Linux_Exploit_Suggester/
- It is simple to use, and we can find the kernel version ...
