How to Exploit Cron Jobs for Privilege Escalation

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In this video I'm gonna show you how cron jobs can be exploited for privilege escalation purposes. I'm Chris, I'm a penetration tester and I do a lot of cybersecurity videos.

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Alright, so we are on attackdefense labs, which is a platform for practicing or growing your skills in cybersecurity and penetration testing in a safe and legal manner. And one of the challenges, the one I'm gonna walk you through today is this 'Cron Jobs Gone Wild'.

What we need to do is to get root on the system by exploiting cron jobs.

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In this hands-on video I show you how I solved the 'Cron Jobs gone Wrong!' challenge on AttackDefenseLabs platform.

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