pentest-priv-escalation

pentest-priv-escalation is a skill for Codex from 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub. It costs 21 tokens per session (304 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for checking privilege escalation, the process of moving from a limited account to an account with greater control. It covers Linux and Windows systems where an authorized foothold already exists.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and document reproducible ways to gain elevated access, then export the findings and a report.
Why use it?
It helps identify practical routes to higher privileges instead of treating each permission or configuration issue as an isolated problem.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to find and document reproducible ways to gain elevated access, then export the findings and a report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/0x-professor/agent-skills-hub/pentest-priv-escalation
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub --skill pentest-priv-escalation
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 304 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00304
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 12d ago against content hash f2fee71bd9bd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pentest-priv-escalation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/priv_escalation.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/pentest-priv-escalation/SKILL.md · 50 lines

What it actually says

Pentest Priv Escalation

Stage

  • PTES: 6
  • MITRE: TA0004

Objective

Identify reproducible routes from constrained users to elevated privileges.

Required Workflow

  1. Validate scope before any active action and reject out-of-scope targets.
  2. Run only authorized checks aligned to PTES, OWASP WSTG, NIST SP 800-115, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  3. Write findings in canonical finding_schema format with reproducible PoC notes.
  4. Honor dry-run mode and require explicit --i-have-authorization for live execution.
  5. Export deterministic artifacts for downstream skill consumption.

Execution

python skills/pentest-priv-escalation/scripts/priv_escalation.py --scope scope.json --target <target> --input <path> --output <path> --format json --dry-run

Outputs

  • privesc-findings.json
  • privesc-report.json

References

  • references/tools.md
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/scope_schema.json
  • skills/autonomous-pentester/shared/finding_schema.json
WARNING AUTHORIZED USE ONLY
This skill executes real security testing tools against live targets.
Use only with written authorization.

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 50 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A f2fee71bd9bd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pentest-priv-escalation is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0x-Professor/Agent-Skills-Hub (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 304 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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