exploiting misconfigurations for privilege escalation
"Exploiting misconfigurations for privilege escalation" refers to the act of taking advantage of incorrect or insecure configurations in a system or software in order to gain higher levels of access or authority than intended or authorized.
Requires login.
Related Concepts (1)
Similar Concepts
- application-specific privilege escalation
- exploit vulnerabilities
- exploitation of vulnerabilities
- exploiting hardware vulnerabilities
- exploiting integer overflow vulnerabilities
- exploiting misconfigured web servers
- exploiting software vulnerabilities
- exploiting vulnerabilities
- exploits in software vulnerabilities
- exploits used in privilege escalation
- linux privilege escalation
- privilege escalation techniques
- privilege escalation vulnerabilities
- remote privilege escalation
- social engineering for privilege escalation