- The first step of rooting any box would be to check whether there are any publicly available local root exploits.
- We can use scripts such as Linux Exploit Suggester for this. It is a script that's built in Perl. 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 by using the following command:
git clone https://github.com/PenturaLabs/Linux_Exploit_Suggester.git
We can see the Linux Exploit Suggester in the following screenshot:
- Now, we will browse into the directory using the cd command:
cd Linux_Exploit_Suggester/ ...
