id: privesc-vi info: name: Vi - Privilege Escalation author: daffainfo severity: high description: | vi is a classic text editor in Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It is known for its modal editing capabilities and is often used for editing configuration files, scripts, and other text-based content in a terminal environment. reference: - https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/vi/ metadata: verified: true max-request: 3 tags: code,linux,vi,privesc,local self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | whoami - engine: - sh - bash source: | vi -c '!whoami' - engine: - sh - bash source: | sudo vi -c '!whoami' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: code_1_response words: - "root" negative: true - type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(code_2_response, "root")' - 'contains(code_3_response, "root")' condition: or # digest: 490a00463044022018ec3eaa4080dded9c71a4102c5c1f1222f405aa225caeb2c1253fc1baade7f502204c2d5b733f282bb9443430f8fa005cb797e08c5fcc60f9e784411f3bead79e31:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950