mawk - Privilege Escalation
ID: privesc-mawk
Severity: high
Author: daffainfo
Tags: code,linux,mawk,privesc,local
Description
Section titled “Description”mawk is an efficient and fast implementation of the AWK programming language. It is designed to be smaller and faster than the original AWK implementation, making it suitable for large data processing tasks. mawk is commonly used for text processing and pattern scanning in shell scripts and command-line environments.
YAML Source
Section titled “YAML Source”id: privesc-mawk
info: name: mawk - Privilege Escalation author: daffainfo severity: high description: | mawk is an efficient and fast implementation of the AWK programming language. It is designed to be smaller and faster than the original AWK implementation, making it suitable for large data processing tasks. mawk is commonly used for text processing and pattern scanning in shell scripts and command-line environments. reference: - https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/mawk/ metadata: verified: true max-request: 3 tags: code,linux,mawk,privesc,local
self-contained: truecode: - engine: - sh - bash source: | whoami
- engine: - sh - bash source: | mawk 'BEGIN {system("whoami")}'
- engine: - sh - bash source: | sudo mawk 'BEGIN {system("whoami")}'
matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: code_1_response words: - "root" negative: true
- type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(code_2_response, "root")' - 'contains(code_3_response, "root")' condition: or# digest: 4a0a0047304502203f783ca6763496591d9cf18dbe228213ac61e5a09e4dc0496e74f77f2fca085e022100f5dee73274c1e09c4f6b92bda070459bfdd5bb87eaf2ee1207af09e9432005e5:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950Guide to check the vulnerabilities
Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "code/privilege-escalation/linux/binary/privesc-mawk.yaml"