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What does mounting /proc with hidepid option brings us?
by aprdm 4y ago
What does mounting /proc with hidepid option brings us?
- CameronNemo 4y agoMakes privilege escalation more difficult by tightening the information available to unprivileged processes.
- mindwok 4y agoIt means that unprivileged users cannot see what other processes are running. Basically just prevents exposing information that might help an attacker, but it does break some tools that might rely on parsing /proc for system information if they are running unprivileged.