id: privesc-rpmdb info: name: rpmdb - Privilege Escalation author: daffainfo severity: high description: | The rpmdb is the database used by the RPM Package Manager to store metadata about installed packages on a Linux system. It is used to track information about installed packages, including their files, dependencies, and other attributes. The rpmdb is a critical component of package management on RPM-based Linux distributions. reference: - https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/rpmdb/ metadata: verified: true tags: code,linux,rpmdb,privesc self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | whoami - engine: - sh - bash source: | rpmdb --eval '%(whoami 1>&2)' - engine: - sh - bash source: | sudo rpmdb --eval '%(whoami 1>&2)' matchers-condition: and matchers: - type: word part: code_1_response words: - "root" negative: true - type: dsl dsl: - 'contains(code_2_response, "root")' - 'contains(code_3_response, "root")' condition: or