On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 11:30:27PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
> I just ran across this article
> https://blog.ikuamike.io/posts/2021/package_managers_privesc/ I tested
> the attacks on Debian 11 and they work successfully giving me a root
> shell prompt.
I don't think calling this "privilege escalation" or "attack" is correct.
The premise of the post is "the user should not be a root/admin user but
has been assigned sudo permissions to run the package manager" and one
doesn't really need a long article to prove that it's not secure.

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