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detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts

85 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills (GitHub) · security · 35,906 stars · scanned at commit 54a7988

Detect privilege escalation attempts across Windows and Linux, including access token manipulation, UAC bypass, unquoted service path abuse, kernel exploits, and sudo/doas abuse. Use when threat hunting for T1068-style privilege escalation, triaging EDR/SIEM alerts on suspicious privilege changes, scoping compromise during incident response, or validating detection coverage in a purple team exercise.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '54a798831d2266a3ca61ce68a7acb80b81160d57' -- 'skills/detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' ~/.agents/skills/'detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' && 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/'detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' ~/.claude/skills/'detecting-privilege-escalation-attempts' (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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