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Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation, also known as elevation of privileges (EoP), is a method used by attackers to gain control of a system or network. Privilege escalation is the act of exploiting a bug in an application to gain access to resources which normally would have been protected from an application or user. The result is that the application performs actions with a higher security context than intended by the application developer or system administrator.

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Privilege escalation