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A word on privilege escalation enumeration scripts

A word on privilege escalation enumeration scripts

From the course: Offensive Penetration Testing

A word on privilege escalation enumeration scripts

A Word on Privilege Escalation Enumeration Scripts. Our learning objectives are to understand the good, the bad, and the ugly of privilege escalation scripts, and you need to decide which privilege escalation scripts that you're going to use in OSCP. So why do we use privilege escalation scripts? Well, you might be asking yourself, Clint, why did you go through the Linux and Windows privilege escalation lessons so quickly about manual enumeration? Well, because we have these great scripts that we can use that does the manual enumeration work that would take us days to do in minutes or seconds. So that's to say that part of my strategy when it comes to privilege escalation is using privilege escalation scripts. I say that, but I also did a CTF recently with a buddy and I didn't use a privilege escalation script. So what I ended up doing were all these manual queries like using Dir and find string and looking in the registry. It taught me a whole lot, but it also took me ten times as…

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