Got Root? A Linux Priv-Esc Benchmark

Understand

Linux systems are integral to the infrastructure of modern computing environments, necessitating robust security measures to prevent unauthorized access.

• Privilege escalation attacks represent a significant threat, typically allowing attackers to elevate their privileges from an initial low-privilege account to the all-powerful root account.
• A benchmark set of vulnerable systems is of high importance to evaluate the effectiveness of privilege-escalation techniques performed by both humans and automated tooling.
• Analyzing their behavior allows defenders to better fortify their entrusted Linux systems and thus protect their infrastructure from potentially devastating attacks.