A cross-platform toolkit to explore OS internals and capabilities
Details
- External ID
- 46587253
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
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- Website domain
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- Launched
- Jan. 12, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built this toolkit with my colleague to dive deep into OS internals and automate the identification of privilege escalation vectors. Written in pure C without external dependencies, it explores everything from Linux capabilities and Docker escapes to Windows token manipulation and service permissions. We believe that the constant struggle between breaking and securing systems is the ultimate driver of software evolution. This tool is our contribution to that cycle, designed for researchers who want to understand how low-level misconfigurations can be discovered and audited across different environments.Source: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ferki-escalator
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- cross-platform os internals toolkit
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing a pure C cross-platform security toolkit for OS internals, privilege escalation, Windows access token manipulation, and container escapes requires offensive security and systems programming expertise.
What it would actually take: The codebase requires direct interaction with Windows Win32/NT Native APIs (OpenProcessToken, DuplicateTokenEx, AdjustTokenPrivileges) and Linux syscalls (capget, setns, clone) with zero dependencies. It demands deep understanding of operating system kernel security boundaries, DACLs, security identifiers, cgroup escapes, and low-level C memory management. This requires advanced reverse engineering and OS internals/exploit development knowledge.
Discussion
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