🧗Privilege Escalation

Privilege Escalation is a malicious attempt to abuse an app or OS bug or error of configuration at gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information by taking over a user’s account that has the necessary privileges to view or commit modifications to the said information and that wouldn’t be normally accessible to the current user.

By obtaining these types of rights, a malicious actor can perform a series of actions to the operating system or to the server such as running different commands or facilitating the infiltration of malware within the network, that will further trigger business disruption, exposure of sensitive data, or system resources, or even complete system takeover.