TTY Spawning Cheat Sheet

Below are some helpful tricks to spawn a TTY shell in the event you need to further interact with the system. These are also helpful in breaking out of “jail shells” but I’ll attempt to cover more on that later

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')
When in vi :!bash or :set shell=/bin/bash:shell
When in nmap !sh