Privilege Escalation Via Cron

Exploiting Misconfigured Cron Permissions To Gain Root Access

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Cron is a super useful job scheduler in Unix-based operating systems. It allows you to schedule jobs to run periodically.

Cron is usually used to automate system administration tasks. But for the individual user, you can use Cron to automate tasks like downloading emails, running…