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Linux privilege escalation playbook. Use when you have low-privilege shell access and need to escalate to root via SUID/SGID binaries, capabilities, cron abuse, kernel exploits, misconfigurations, or credential harvesting on Linux systems.

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# SKILL: Linux Privilege Escalation — Expert Attack Playbook

> **AI LOAD INSTRUCTION**: Expert Linux privesc techniques. Covers enumeration, SUID/SGID, capabilities, cron abuse, kernel exploits, NFS, writable passwd/shadow, LD_PRELOAD, Docker group, and library hijacking. Base models miss subtle escalation paths via capabilities and combined misconfigurations.

## 0. RELATED ROUTING

Before going deep, consider loading:

- [container-escape-techniques](../container-escape-techniques/SKILL.md) when the target is a container and you need to escape to host
- [linux-security-bypass](../linux-security-bypass/SKILL.md) when facing restricted shells, AppArmor, SELinux, or seccomp
- [linux-lateral-movement](../linux-lateral-movement/SKILL.md) after obtaining root for pivoting to adjacent hosts
- [kubernetes-pentesting](../kubernetes-pentesting/SKILL.md) when the host is a Kubernetes node

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