Privilege Escalation Mutillidae in Backtrack using Brute Force and LFI

Okay,,now we learn about privelege escalation. What is privelege escalation?

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.

There are two kinds of privilege escalation: Vertical and Horizontal.

• Vertical privilege escalation requires the attacker to grant himself higher privileges. This is typically achieved by performing kernel-level operations that allow the attacker to run unauthorized code.

• Horizontal privilege escalation requires the attacker to use the same level of privileges he already has been granted, but assume the identity of another user with similar privileges. For example, someone gaining access to another person's online banking account would constitute horizontal privilege escalation. 

One of the example of privelege escalation is brute force. Brute force (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption Standard (DES) keys, through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies.   

What is LFI? A local file inclusion (usually called “LFI”) is a webhacking technique that allow simply to include files from a local location. That means that we can include a file that is outside of the web directory (if we got rights), and execute PHP code. 

Now i will show you Privilege Escalation Mutillidae in Backtrack using Brute Force and LFI, so you can try it yourself.