sudo
The mantis
user has sudo privileges to execute anything as anyone, essentially making it the root
user
mantis@mantis:/$ sudo su root
root@mantis:/#
root@mantis:/# whoami
root
root@mantis:/# hostname
mantis
root@mantis:/# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ens160: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:9e:ab:3d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.135.204/24 brd 192.168.135.255 scope global noprefixroute ens160
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe9e:ab3d/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
System level compromise