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Comment by emj

12 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  10 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  9 hours ago

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

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