- [Pentest Book - Privilege Escalation](https://chryzsh.gitbooks.io/pentestbook/privilege_escalation_-_linux.html): common Linux privilege escalation techniques.
- [My 5 Top Ways to Escalate Privileges](https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/blogs/spiderlabs-blog/my-5-top-ways-to-escalate-privileges/): Bruno Oliveira's top 5 favorite ways for accomplishing privilege escalation in the most practical ways possible.
- [Linux Privilege Escalation via Dynamically Linked Shared Object Library](https://www.contextis.com/en/blog/linux-privilege-escalation-via-dynamically-linked-shared-object-library): How RPATH and Weak File Permissions can lead to a system compromise.
- [Linux Privilege Escalation](https://percussiveelbow.github.io/linux-privesc/): an introduction to Linux escalation techniques, mainly focusing on file/process permissions, but along with some other stuff too.
- [Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Cheatsheet](https://www.rebootuser.com/?p=1623): a few Linux commands that may come in useful when trying to escalate privileges on a target system.
- [Local Linux privilege escalation overview](https://myexperiments.io/linux-privilege-escalation.html): This article will give an overview of the basic Linux privilege escalation techniques. It separates the local Linux privilege escalation in different scopes: kernel, process, mining credentials, sudo, cron, NFS, and file permission.
- [Attack and Defend: LinuxPrivilege Escalation Techniques of 2016](https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/linux/attack-defend-linux-privilege-escalation-techniques-2016-37562): This paper will examine Linux privilege escalation techniques used throughout 2016 in detail, highlighting how these techniques work and how adversaries are using them.
- [Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation](https://hackingandsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/05/local-linux-enumeration-privilege.html): a few Linux commands that may come in useful when trying to escalate privileges on a target system.
- [Back To The Future: Unix Wildcards Gone Wild](https://www.defensecode.com/public/DefenseCode_Unix_WildCards_Gone_Wild.txt): This article will cover one interesting
old-school Unix hacking technique, that will still work in 2013.
- [POST CATEGORY : Privilege Escalation](https://www.hackingarticles.in/category/privilege-escalation/): Privilege escalation post category in Raj Chandel's Blog.
- [Escaping Restricted Linux Shells](https://pen-testing.sans.org/blog/pen-testing/2012/06/06/escaping-restricted-linux-shells): Resource for penetration testers to assist them when confronted with a restricted shell.
- [Restricted Linux Shell Escaping Techniques](https://fireshellsecurity.team/restricted-linux-shell-escaping-techniques/): The focus of this article is on discussing and summarizing different techniques to escape common Linux restricted shells and also simple recommendations for administrators to protect against it.
- [GTFOBins](https://gtfobins.github.io/): GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix binaries that can be exploited by an attacker to bypass local security restrictions.
- [Abusing SUDO](https://touhidshaikh.com/blog/?p=790): Some of the binary which helps you to escalate privilege using the sudo command.
- [Sudo (LD_PRELOAD)](https://touhidshaikh.com/blog/?p=827): Privilege Escalation from an LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
- [How I got root with Sudo](https://www.securusglobal.com/community/2014/03/17/how-i-got-root-with-sudo/)
- [Gaining a Root shell using MySQL User Defined Functions and SETUID Binaries](https://infamoussyn.wordpress.com/2014/07/11/gaining-a-root-shell-using-mysql-user-defined-functions-and-setuid-binaries/): How a MySQL User Defined Function (UDF) and a SETUID binary can be used to elevate user privilege to a root shell.
- [Exploiting capabilities](http://blog.sevagas.com/IMG/pdf/exploiting_capabilities_the_dark_side.pdf): Parcel root power, the dark side of capabilities
- [getcap, setcap and file capabilities](https://www.insecure.ws/linux/getcap_setcap.html)