This project is designed to check various priviledges within cloud environments and determine what routes may exist to elevate priviledges virtically in the cloud stack.
Right now this is script is designed to be used on an EC2 or somehwere within AWS where there is an interactive shell. Utilizing any permissions that are inherited.
This project is under development. For a more completed project you should check out Rhino Security Labs' aws_escalate.py utility at: https://github.com/RhinoSecurityLabs/Security-Research/blob/master/tools/aws-pentest-tools/aws_escalate.py