Initial privesc enumeration:

File /bin/bash

Uname -a

cat /etc/*-release

Check the following directory’s for anything good

/tmp

/var/tmp

/dev/shm

cat /etc/fstab (exotic mounts with extended user attributes)

Mount (can we mount anything)

ls -la /etc (anything created by non root)

ls -la /etc/passwd (do we have any writable permissions)

ps aux |grep -i ‘root’ —color=auto (cron, maybe fire up pspy64)

netstat -tunlp (anything listening locally)

cd /var/mail (any mail?)

find / -perm u=s -type f 2>/dev/null (find any SUID, maybe wget or cp)

find / -perm g=s -type f 2>/dev/null (find any GUID)