privilege-escalation SKILL.md skillC
privilege-escalation from iuliandita/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iuliandita/skills/privilege-escalation@git:20261105.aa96fb6Pins git:20261105.aa96fb6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- C, 15 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iuliandita/skills
- Path
skills/privilege-escalation/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 7
- Latest version
- git:20261105.aa96fb6, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 20,404 bytes
- Repository stars
- 11
- License
- MIT
Assess authorized Linux privilege escalation: privesc enumeration after a shell, sudo and SUID checks, container escape, Kubernetes RBAC abuse, pivoting.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Privilege Escalation and Post-Exploitation Assessment Systematic privilege escalation methodology for authorized security assessments, CTF challenges, and penetration testing engagements. Covers Linux systems, containers, Kubernetes clusters, VPN infrastructure, and IaC credential exposure. This skill is offensive - it assumes you have initial access and guides escalation to higher privileges. For defensive hardening and vulnerability scanning, use the **security-audit** skill instead. ## When to use - Authorized penetration testing engagements (with written scope) - CTF challenges and security training labs (HTB, THM, PG, etc.) - Post-exploitation enumeration after gaining initial shell access - Red team exercises with defined rules of engagement - Assessing your own infrastructure for privilege escalation paths - Container escape and Kubernetes RBAC abuse testing - VPN credential extraction and lateral movement assessment ## When NOT to use - Defensive security reviews or hardening (use **security-audit**) - Application code vulnerability scanning / SAST (use **security-audit**) - VPN setup, configuration, or troubleshooting (use **networking**) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iuliandita/skills/privilege-escalation@sha256:c4d18e510f61e8e8The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.aa96fb6, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kffermtx4supebdu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 7 versions of this file, between Sep 20, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 8 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261105.aa96fb6 latest | 2026-11-05 | aa96fb6 | 20,404 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20261105.305fe01 | 2026-11-05 | 305fe01 | 20,515 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20261105.65c9c02 | 2026-11-05 | 65c9c02 | 20,517 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20261028.640b16a | 2026-10-28 | 640b16a | 20,348 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20261002.a7f9a1c | 2026-10-02 | a7f9a1c | 20,405 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20260920.ebf9a3d | 2026-09-20 | ebf9a3d | 20,024 B | C | view · diff |
| git:20260920.ac01853 | 2026-09-20 | ac01853 | 19,906 B | C | view |
Audit of the latest version
- fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: cat ~/.aws)
- fail: No link to a raw IP address (matched: http://169.254.169.254)
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (20404 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No script tag
Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.
Source
iuliandita/skills · 11 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kffermtx4supebdu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/privilege-escalation GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c4d18e510f61e8e8ab52d060e28d6e3a21d59429e1971348615d84282d8d5a0c
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