I think you are looking at it wrong way. A remote exploit is one where the exploit makes use of a vuln over network. The bug/vuln is exposed in either the netwo

I think you are looking at it wrong way. A remote exploit is one where the exploit makes use of a vuln over network. The bug/vuln is exposed in either the networking or applications accessible over the net. In this case, you need to use a remote exploit to get local access and then use this to elevate the local access to root access. You can still do it through a remote system, but not without the intermediate step.