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Blog October 3, 2023
A Comparison Between the Real User ID and the Effective User ID is not Enough to Prevent Privilege Escalation
In Unix-like systems, processes have a real and effective user ID determining their access permissions. While usually identical, they can differ in situations like when the setuid bit is activated in executables.