It can be used to break out from restricted environments by spawning an interactive system shell.
bconsole
@exec /bin/sh
It reads data from files, it may be used to do privileged reads or disclose files outside a restricted file system.
The file is actually parsed and the first wrong line is returned in an error message, thus it may not be suitable for reading arbitrary files.
bconsole -c /etc/shadow
If the binary is allowed to run as superuser by sudo
, it does not drop the elevated privileges and may be used to access the file system, escalate or maintain privileged access.
sudo bconsole
@exec /bin/sh