module

Chkrootkit Local Privilege Escalation

Disclosed
2014-06-04
Created
2018-05-30

Description

Chkrootkit before 0.50 will run any executable file named /tmp/update
as root, allowing a trivial privilege escalation.

WfsDelay is set to 24h, since this is how often a chkrootkit scan is
scheduled by default.

Authors

Thomas Stangner
Julien "jvoisin" Voisin

Platform

Unix

Architectures

cmd

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


msf > use exploit/unix/local/chkrootkit
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(chkrootkit) > exploit

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