LinEnum will automate many of the checks that I’ve documented in the Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Cheatsheet. It’s a very basic shell script that performs over 65 checks, getting anything from kernel information to locating possible escalation points such as potentially useful SUID/GUID files and Sudo/rhost mis-configurations and more.

An additional ‘extra’ feature is that the script will also use a provided keyword to search through *.conf and *.log files. Any matches will be displayed along with the full file path and line number on which the keyword was identified.

After the scan has completed (please be aware that it make take some time) you’ll be presented with (possibly quite extensive) output, to which any key findings will be highlighted in yellow with everything else documented under the relevant headings.

Some of the above commands are privileged/and or the related task may be nonexistent and will therefore most likely fail. The user shouldn’t be alerted to failed results, just the output from successful commands should be displayed.

LinEnum is a shell script that automates local information gathering tasks on Linux hosts.Over 65 checks are performed, obtaining anything from kernel information to locating possible escalation points such as potentially useful SUID/GUID files and Sudo/rhost mis-configurations etc.

Additionally, the script will also use a provided keyword to search through *.conf and *.log files. Any matches will be displayed along with the full file path and line number on which the keyword was identified (useful for finding ‘password’ and other sensitive data).

High-level summary of the checks/tasks performed by LinEnum: