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Privilege Escalation or Elevation

Privilege Escalation or Elevation definition - hacker
A classic attack against a system, whereby a user has an account on a system and uses it to gain additional privileges on the system that he or she was not meant to have.

See Also: Attack; Exploit.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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