Performing Privilege Escalation Assessment When to Use - After gaining initial low-privilege access during a penetration test to demonstrate full system compromise - Assessing the security hardening of Linux and Windows servers against local privilege escalation attacks - Evaluating whether endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools detect common privilege escalation techniques - Testing the effectiveness of least-privilege policies and application whitelisting on endpoints - Validating that container breakout and VM escape controls are properly configured Do not use without written authoriz…