Privilege Escalation
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A Privilege Escalation is a software bug exploitation to gain elevated access to protected resources.
- Example(s):
- Software Jailbraking.
- ...
- See: Authorization, Privilege (Computing).
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/privilege_escalation Retrieved:2023-7-11.
- Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug, a design flaw, or a configuration oversight in an operating system or software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user. The result is that an application with more privileges than intended by the application developer or system administrator can perform unauthorized actions.