Rooted. Crazy learning experience. Didn't create a local instance to gain access, there's an interesting chained POC . Foothold with a low shell, manage to upgrade it with perl, nothing else worked.
Finding user was crazy and interesting, spend a loooot of time at this stage. Repositories might help in the right direction and from there Google was my best friend for a few days.
Root was is a bit easier than user, if you follow the hints, find that exec and the correct PATH . Google showed me how. Definitely not an easy machine, more like a custom exploitation one.
Thanks guys for all the hints, could not have owned the machine without help from you!!