Remote Linux privilege escalation 

In this recipe, we will use Metasploit against the Metasploitable VM to raise the privileges of the user.

Getting ready

Let's ensure the following prerequisites:

• Your Kali VM is up and running
• Your Metasploitable VM is up and running and on the host-only network

How to do it...

In this recipe we will remotely elevate privilege on a Linux device:

1. First, let's log in to the Metasploitable VM and add a standard user.

Note

Metasploitable's default username is msfadmin and password msfadmin.

2. From the console, enter the following commands to add a user and validate the IP address of the Metasploitable host:

cd <enter>
ifconfig <enter>
sudo useradd -m user7 <enter>
 msfadmin <enter>ex
sudo passwd user7 <enter>
 password <enter>
 password <enter>
exit <enter>

Metasploitable console

3. From Kali, let's start Armitage.

Note

Refer to Chapter 4, Finding Exploits in the Target, for information on starting Armitage.

4. From Armitage, add the...