Linux Detection Engineering - Local Privilege Escalation
Local privilege escalation (LPE) is the step that turns a foothold into full control of a host. An attacker who lands as an unprivileged user rarely stops there. They want root, and Linux keeps offering new ways to get it.In this edition of our "Linux Detection Engineering" series, we’ll cover:The default flow that a Linux LPE produces on the host and the general rules that detect it.The recurring LPE patterns behind the most recent LPEs and how each works, along with how each looks through the…