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Comment by emj

9 hours ago

You do not run it as root, all you get is the possibility to crash or execute code. Nodes that handle such things are all heavily locked down.

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stackghost  7 hours ago

>all you get is the possibility to [...] execute code

Anyone who's ever done even a beginner CTF knows that achieving code execution is a big deal.

  • pixl97  6 hours ago

    Yep, once you have code execution you find a local privilege escalation and go from there.

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