AI Summary: Traitor is a privilege escalation tool designed to automatically exploit local vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in Unix-like systems to achieve a root shell. It incorporates various methods from GTFOBins and specific CVEs, allowing users to discover potential exploits with options to directly attempt them if necessary. Notable features include the ability to analyze sudo permissions, the option to exploit specific vulnerabilities, and support for various privilege escalation vectors.

README

Traitor

Automatically exploit low-hanging fruit to pop a root shell. Linux privilege escalation made easy!

Traitor packages up a bunch of methods to exploit local misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in order to pop a root shell:

• Nearly all of GTFOBins
• Writeable docker.sock
• CVE-2022-0847 (Dirty pipe)
• CVE-2021-4034 (pwnkit)
• CVE-2021-3560

It’ll exploit most sudo privileges listed in GTFOBins to pop a root shell, as well as exploiting issues like a writable docker.sock, or the recent dirty pipe (CVE-2022-0847). More routes to root will be added over time too.

Usage

Run with no arguments to find potential vulnerabilities/misconfigurations which could allow privilege escalation. Add the -p flag if the current user password is known. The password will be requested if it’s needed to analyse sudo permissions etc.

traitor -p

Run with the -a/--any flag to find potential vulnerabilities, attempting to exploit each, stopping if a root shell is gained. Again, add the -p flag if the current user password is known.

traitor -a -p

Run with the -e/--exploit flag to attempt to exploit a specific vulnerability and gain a root shell.

traitor -p -e docker:writable-socket

Supported Platforms

Traitor will run on all Unix-like systems, though certain exploits will only function on certain systems.

Getting Traitor

Grab a binary from the releases page, or use go:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go get -u github.com/liamg/traitor/cmd/traitor

For go1.18:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go install github.com/liamg/traitor/cmd/traitor@latest

If the machine you’re attempting privesc on cannot reach GitHub to download the binary, and you have no way to upload the binary to the machine over SCP/FTP etc., then you can try base64 encoding the binary on your machine, and echoing the base64 encoded string to | base64 -d > /tmp/traitor on the target machine, remembering to chmod +x it once it arrives.

In The News

• 20/06/21: Console 58 - Awesome newsletter featuring tools and beta releases for developers.
• 28/04/21: Intigriti Bug Bytes #120 - Recommended tools
• 09/03/21: Hacker News thread