linux-privilege-escalation
linux-privilege-escalation is a Penetration testing & red team skill for AI agents, published by zebbern in the claude-code-guide repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates linux-privilege-escalation F (15/100) and the safety scan rated it unsafe; the rating is based on static analysis only.
Unsafe. This skill has patterns associated with malicious or dangerous behaviour. We do not recommend running it.
This skill should be used when the user asks to "escalate privileges on Linux", "find privesc vectors on Linux systems", "exploit sudo misconfigurations", "abuse SUID binaries", "exploit cron jobs for root access", "enumerate Linux systems for privilege escalation", or "gain root access from low-privilege shell". It provides comprehensive techniques for identifying and exploiting privilege escalation paths on Linux systems.
- Grade
- F
- Quality
- 15 / 100
- Safety
- Unsafe
- GitHub stars
- 4,620
Unproven: rated by static analysis only, not yet compared head-to-head.
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Our review
- Architecture
- 96 / 100
- Maturity
- Basic: a single SKILL.md
- Security scan
- Critical-risk patterns
- License
- Not declared. Check the repository before reusing it.
What the scanner flagged
- pipe remote script to shell
- reverse shell
- accesses sensitive system files
- executes shell/subprocess
- dynamic code execution (eval/exec)
- base64 decode (possible obfuscation)
- mentions secrets in text
Not checked yet
- Category is a classifier prediction; no model has read this skill yet
- Not judged on the rubric yet (not a contender in its category)
- No blind task eval yet
- Scope (portable / vendor / repo-internal) not assessed; only the top of each category is read for scope
- Sibling files (scripts, references) not fetched; security scan covers SKILL.md only
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