Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result is that an application with more privi ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, design flaw or configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result is that an application with more privileges than intended by the application developer or system administrator can perform unauthorized actions. Privilege escalation occurs when a system has a bug that allows security to be bypassed, or alternatively, has flawed design assumptions about how it will be used. In some cases a high-privilege application assumes that it will only be provided with input that matches its interface specification, and doesn't validate the input. Horizontal privilege escalation occurs when an application allows the attacker to gain access to resources which normally would have been protected from an application or user.