Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Metasploit and privilege escalation

In this section, we will look at using Metasploit to obtain the highest level of privileges on the target system. Most of the applications we are targeting run on user-level privileges, which provide us with general access but not access to the complete system. However, to obtain system-level access, we need to escalate privileges using vulnerabilities in the target system after gaining access to the system. Let us see how we can achieve system-level access to various types of operating system in the next sections.