Hack The Box: CodePartTwo

Description CodePartTwo is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Remote Command Execution in Python application interfacing with Javascript code using js2py Recovery of a credential found in web application database and password reuse Privilege Escalation via npbackup backup application ran as root user Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.119.51. ...

January 31, 2026 · 7 min

Hack The Box: Imagery

Description Imagery is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Cross Site Scripting in gallery web application allowing the capture of administrator session Path Traversal in web application allowing reading the source code Command Injection in functionality unlocked by a pivoted testing user Linux user pivoting by the decryption an old backup of the website source code Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable backup application allowing command execution Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.17.177. ...

January 24, 2026 · 13 min

Hack The Box: HackNet

Description HackNet is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Server Side Template Injection in Python Django web application Credentials obtained from SSTI leads to password reuse in Linux user User pivoting to web server user via Django cache deserialization Privilege Escalation via decryption of GPG encrypted SQL dump backups Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.208.8. ...

January 17, 2026 · 13 min

Hack The Box: Previous

Description Previous is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Next.js Middleware Authorization Bypass Vulnerability Next.js Path Traversal that leads into reading compiled source code Compiled source code contains user credentials User credentials reused for Linux user Privilege Escalation via a malicious Terraform provider Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.235.175. ...

January 10, 2026 · 10 min

Hack The Box: Editor

Description Editor is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: XWiki Remote Command Execution vulnerability User Pivoting via a reused credential from a MySQL database Privilege Escalation via netdata binary with SUID bit set and PATH manipulation Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.209.7. $ ping -c 3 10.129.209.7 PING 10.129.209.7 (10.129.209.7) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.209.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=46.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.209.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=46.6 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.209.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=46.6 ms --- 10.129.209.7 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 46.625/46.646/46.666/0.016 ms The machine is active and with the TTL that equals 63 (64 minus 1 jump) we can assure that it is an Unix machine. Now we are going to do a Nmap TCP SYN port scan to check all opened ports. ...

December 6, 2025 · 6 min

Hack The Box: Era

Description Era is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Subdomain Enumeration to find a web storage application User enumeration via a flawed login implementation Login bypass via a flawed login implementation User pivoting via a flawed security reset implementation Download of the source code of the application (Insecure Direct Object Reference) leading to the discovery of a local file inclusion vulnerability by using PHP wrappers and user credentials Local File Inclusion vulnerability allows Remote Command Execution User pivoting by using previously found credentials Privilege Escalation by replacing a signed ELF writable by the user Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.244.58. ...

November 29, 2025 · 15 min

Hack The Box: Outbound

Description Outbound is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Assumed breach of a mail user credentials Remote Command Execution vulnerability in Roundcube mail client Password from a Roundcube session decryption Roundcube decrypted password allow access to a mailbox with a password of a Linux user Privilege Escalation via Below application changing log files permissions to be writable to all users Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.253.19. ...

November 15, 2025 · 9 min

Hack The Box: Voleur

Description Voleur is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Initial access using an assumed breach scenario that leads in domain discovery. This domain only allows Kerberos authentication SMB share discovery leading to the discover of a file with credentials of service accounts and a removed account One of the leaked accounts allows a targeted Kerberoast attack to another service account allowed to create remote sessions to the system Removed account can be recovered containing a backup of credentials encrypted using DPAPI and recovered credentials allow user pivoting Pivoted user has the private SSH key of the service backup account Service backup account holds the backup of Active Directory user database containing all the credentials Privilege Escalation by dumping the secrets of the Active Directory user database (Kerberos keys) Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.250.126. ...

November 1, 2025 · 14 min

Hack The Box: Artificial

Description Artificial is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: AI web platform allowing the upload of Tensorflow models, which leads in remote command execution User pivoting by cracking the user hashes of the AI platform and password reuse Internal web application Backrest with a backup of its configuration archived with its password hash and the cracking of it Privilege Escalation via Command Execution using Backrest application Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.68.41. ...

October 25, 2025 · 9 min

Hack The Box: TombWatcher

Description TombWatcher is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Initial access using an assumed breach scenario that leads in domain discovery Controlled user has WriteSPN permission over other user, allowing user pivoting with a targeted Kerberoast attack User is able to add itself to a group with the ReadGMSAPassword permission over a service account, allowing user pivoting Service account have ForceChangePassword permission over an user account, allowing changing the user password and user pivoting Next user account has WriteOwner permission over other user, allowing changing the owner, the permissions and the password of the user that is able of remotely access to the remote machine Active Directory Certificate Services deleted account recovery via the AD Recycle Bin One of the controlled users have GenericAll permission over the ADCS account, allowing full control Privilege Escalation via Active Directory Certificate Services ESC15 vulnerability Footprinting First, we are going to check with ping command if the machine is active and the system operating system. The target machine IP address is 10.129.44.254. ...

October 11, 2025 · 13 min