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Privilege Escalation

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florianbuetow·vlatest·security·MIT

This skill simulates escalating privileges within a system for testing and understanding vulnerabilities – crucial for security assessments.

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Install on your platform

Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add florianbuetow/claude-code --skill privilege-escalation -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

florianbuetow

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned florianbuetow/claude-code at 80326c559d.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
80326c559d
Manifest
plugins/appsec/skills/privilege-escalation/SKILL.md
Scanned
1 file, 122 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill allows an AI agent to explore and identify potential privilege escalation vulnerabilities within a system. It can analyze configurations, binaries, and other artifacts to discover misconfigurations or exploitable weaknesses that could lead to elevated access levels. The agent can then suggest remediation steps based on its findings.

When to use it

  • Security Audits: To proactively assess the security posture of systems by identifying potential privilege escalation paths.
  • Penetration Testing: As part of a broader penetration testing engagement, to simulate an attacker attempting to gain higher privileges.
  • Vulnerability Research: To investigate suspicious system behavior or newly discovered vulnerabilities that might lead to privilege escalation.
  • Post-Exploitation: Following initial access to a system, to determine the potential for escalating privileges and gaining deeper control.

Key capabilities

  • Configuration analysis
  • Binary analysis
  • Vulnerability identification
  • Remediation suggestion

Example prompts

  • "Analyze this system configuration file for privilege escalation vulnerabilities."
  • "Can you identify any misconfigurations that could lead to root access on this server?"
  • "What are the potential privilege escalation paths in this binary?"

Tips & gotchas

This skill requires a good understanding of operating systems and security principles. The agent's suggestions should always be verified by a human expert before implementation, as false positives can occur.