# Rust Privilege Escalation

Rust is a multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes performance, type safety, and concurrency. If we have a write permission of a Rust file, we may be able to inject arbitrary code to escalate privileges.

### Reverse Shell <a href="#reverse-shell" id="reverse-shell"></a>

Reference: <https://github.com/LukeDSchenk/rust-backdoors/blob/master/reverse-shell/src/main.rs>

We can create a binary or module to reverse shell.

```
cd /path/to/rust/project/src
vim lib.rs
(In vim editor, insert a reverse shell code into a file)
cargo build
```

### References <a href="#references" id="references"></a>

* [HackTricks](https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-hardening/privilege-escalation)