Passwords

Check the history first

history
cat .bash_history

Check for passwords

Linux - Privilege Escalation - Internal All The Things

grep --color=auto -rnw '/' -ie "PASSWORD" --color=always 2> /dev/nullf
find . -type f -exec grep -i -I "PASSWORD" {} /dev/null \;

Run linPEAS if nothing shows up manually

Right in front of us

Sometimes the path is right in front of us like a file right in the home directory. Especially in a CTF situation, enumeration on very piece of information given will lead to success... AVOID RABBIT HOLES.