Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism: Sudo and Sudo Caching

Threat Actors may perform sudo caching and/or use the sudoers file to elevate privileges. Threat Actors may do this to execute commands as other users or spawn processes with higher privileges.

ID: ATAGS-T1078.004
Sub-technique of:  ATAGS-T1078
Targeted Components: Software
Responsibility: Provider
Created: 18 April 2026
Last Modified: 18 April 2026

Mitigations

This type of attack technique cannot be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features.