kernel-exploitation

kernel-exploitation is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,952 once invoked), scanned B, a copy of kernel-exploitation, MIT.

A guide to exploiting Linux kernel vulnerabilities, which are flaws in the core software that manages the operating system and hardware.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to study vulnerabilities such as use-after-free, out-of-bounds access, race conditions, and type confusion in controlled CTF or authorized test environments.
Why use it?
It helps security testers assess whether kernel bugs could let a normal user gain higher privileges despite operating-system protections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is cpio -idmv < ../rootfs.cpio.gz.

Good fit Use it to study vulnerabilities such as use-after-free, out-of-bounds access, race conditions, and type confusion in controlled CTF or authorized test environments.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shulkwisec/bb-huge/kernel-exploitation

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,952 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00054 $0.02952
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01476
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00590
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00295

Measured 8d ago against content hash 9f5deef00930, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

kernel-exploitation scanned grade B with 2 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 8d ago.

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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

echo 'cp /flag /tmp/flag && chmod 777 /tmp/flag' >> /tmp/x

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.1.tar.xz
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to kernel-exploitation — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/curated/kernel-exploitation/SKILL.md · 308 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 308 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Linux Kernel Exploitation — Expert Attack Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Expert kernel exploitation techniques. Covers environment setup (QEMU), vulnerability classes, privilege escalation targets, kernel ROP, ret2usr, stack pivoting, and cross-cache attacks. Distilled from ctf-wiki kernel-mode sections and real-world kernel CVEs. Base models often confuse user-mode and kernel-mode exploitation constraints, especially regarding SMEP/SMAP/KPTI.

Advanced References


1. EXPLOITATION MODEL

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  1. Find Vulnerability                              │
│     (UAF, OOB, race, integer overflow, type confusion)│
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  2. Build Primitive                                 │
│     (arbitrary read, arbitrary write, controlled RIP)│
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  3. Bypass Mitigations                              │
│     (KASLR, SMEP, SMAP, KPTI)                     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  4. Escalate Privileges                             │
│     (commit_creds, modprobe_path, namespace escape)  │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  5. Return to Userspace Cleanly                     │
│     (KPTI trampoline, iretq/sysretq, swapgs)       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 308 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 8d ago First seen · 308 lines · 54 tokens per session scan B 9f5deef00930

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kernel-exploitation is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShulkwiSEC/bb-huge (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,952 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 2 findings (asks for root, makes network calls). It is 100% identical to kernel-exploitation, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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