Introduction
As wikipedia says, 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
I will be following the common potential attack vectors for both operating systems (Linux & Windows) and the services that can be exploited to elevate privileges.
But before we get started, How To Get A Shell in the first place ?
I preferred to make most of my writing in a cheat sheets format, giving you the head lines, and leaving you having a great time with goolge ^^