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Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation

From the course: CompTIA CySA+ (CS0-002) Cert Prep: 2 Vulnerability Management (2020)

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Privilege escalation

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- [Instructor] Software developers must take care to write code that is not susceptible to privilege escalation attacks. Escalation of privilege attacks seek to take normal user accounts and transform them into accounts with administrative rights. This can be especially dangerous on systems that have external exposure allowing someone on the internet to take control of a server. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities often arise as a result of buffer overflow issues or other security vulnerabilities in code that allow an end user to execute arbitrary instructions on the server. When the end user gets access to the underlying operating system, he or she can take advantage of privilege escalation vulnerabilities to leverage that access into administrative privileges. There are some basic mitigation strategies that developers and operations teams can take to reduce the likelihood of privilege escalation attacks. First…

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