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    [–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If by maliciously you mean a virus might take advantage of the system in those 5 minute, the answer is, yes, it is possible... not likely, but possible.

    If the question was, can the shell by itself escalate a command that does not have sudo in front of the command, the answer is no. If it did that, than there are some serious bugs in the code... or some malicious code planted in it. By definition, it's not supposed to do what you don't tell it to do.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    This is exactly the answer I was wanting. Thank you.

    [–] 0x4E4F 2 points 2 months ago

    No prob 😊.