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linux-privilege-escalation

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Check before installing. Some of what it can do is expected: a marketing skill usually talks to online services.

By kursku/skills (GitHub) · marketing · 128 stars · scanned at commit 346c313

This skill should be used when the user asks to "escalate privileges on Linux", "find privesc vectors on Linux systems", "exploit sudo misconfigurations", "abuse SUID binaries", "ex...

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README.

Found in 30 places.

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and 10 more places

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

Sends data to these websites: github.com, attacker_ip

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a marketing skill.

Found in 3 places.

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=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/kursku/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '346c313fd2ec241a088c68274da26c538422568b' -- 'packs/global-skillshare-import/wave-008/linux-privilege-escalation' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'packs/global-skillshare-import/wave-008/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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DateVersionScore
2026-11-07346c31379