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Local Privilege Escalation

A vulnerability or technique that allows a low-privileged user to gain higher (often root/admin) privileges on the local system.

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TimeKeeper

TimeKeeper

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TimeKeeper is a compact Linux CTF machine modeled as a time-tracking web service. Players will need to investigate the application and host to progress through layered challenges that exercise web application analysis and local privilege escalation.

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