Top 4 Shell privilege-escalation Projects

linux-smart-enumeration

2 3,193 6.2 Shell

Linux enumeration tool for pentesting and CTFs with verbosity levels
SUDO_KILLER

8 2,096 8.8 Shell

A tool designed to exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability in the sudo program on Unix-like systems. It takes advantage of a specific misconfiguration or flaw in sudo to gain elevated privileges on the system, essentially allowing a regular user to execute commands as the root user.
InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
deepce

1 1,102 5.5 Shell

Docker Enumeration, Escalation of Privileges and Container Escapes (DEEPCE)

Project mention: How to Escape a Container | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-20

Useful: https://github.com/stealthcopter/deepce

Pentest-Service-Enumeration

5 93 6.5 Shell

Suggests programs to run against services found during the enumeration phase of a Pentest

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).