Guides manual enumeration and automated tooling to escalate from a low-privilege Linux user to root by exploiting misconfigurations, vulnerable services, kernel exploits, and weak permissions, mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Use during authorized red team engagements or penetration tests once initial low-privilege access on a Linux host is obtained and root-level access is needed.
Install
npx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill performing-privilege-escalation-on-linuxnpx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux -a claude-code -gnpx skills add mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills --skill performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills.git --path skills/performing-privilege-escalation-on-linuxgh skill install mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills performing-privilege-escalation-on-linuxgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills /tmp/mukul975__Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/mukul975__Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/skills/performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux ~/.claude/skills/performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/mukul975__Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills/skills/performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux ~/.agents/skills/performing-privilege-escalation-on-linux # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode