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Description WingData is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Wing FTP Server Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution vulnerability Linux user Pivoting via cracking of a salted hash of Wing FTP Server Privilege Escalation via Python Tarfile Realpath Overflow Vulnerability allowing Arbitrary File Write 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 10.129.4.106. ...

Description Fireflow is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: LangFlow web application Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using credentials found in LangFlow environment file Command Execution in a MCP Kubernetes container using a vulnerable web application (to JWT algorithm mismatch and tool creation) Privilege Escalation via a misconfigured Kubernetes cluster with nodes/proxy permission allowing to read all files from privileged containers 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 10.129.85.165. ...

Description Nexus is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Git repository enumeration to find credentials in Git history Krayin web application Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using reused Krayin credentials Privilege Escalation via an unsanitized os.path.join function in a Gitea Python script 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 10.129.85.169. ...

Description Orion is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Craft CMS Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by using a reused credential cracked from Craft CMS database Privilege Escalation via an Authentication Bypass vulnerability in Telnet 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 10.129.244.146. $ ping -c 3 10.129.244.146 PING 10.129.244.146 (10.129.244.146) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=82.9 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=47.1 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.244.146: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=47.5 ms --- 10.129.244.146 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.103/59.173/82.884/16.766 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. ...

Description VariaType is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Arbitrary File Write in a web application using Python fontTools library Subdomain Enumeration to find a management dashboard Upload of malicious PHP file leads to Remote Command Execution User Pivoting by leveraging Command Injection vulnerability in Python FontForge library Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable Python script executable by root allowing Arbitrary File Write 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 10.129.10.139. ...

Description Facts is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Web Path Enumeration to find an administration login dashboard Camaleon CMS Privilege Escalation vulnerability leads to access to the administrator dashboard with access to credentials of an internal S3 MinIO bucket Enumeration of the S3 MinIO bucket leads into the discovery of a private SSH key Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable Ruby script allowing the execution with --custom-dir parameter 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 10.129.18.175. ...

Description Abducted is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Samba Remote Command Execution by Command Injection User Pivoting by decoding rclone configuration file User Pivoting by taking advantage of incorrect Samba symbolic link configuration Privilege Escalation by rewriting Systemd service configuration 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 10.129.85.94. ...

Description Interpreter is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Mirth Connect Remote Command Execution Mirth Connect database enumeration to find available channels Enumeration of internal opened ports to find a Mirth Connect channel and an unknown application Privilege Escalation via Python Command Injection in an internal 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 10.129.2.28. ...

Description MonitorsFour is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Web enumeration to discover an API vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference vulnerability leading to the discovery of database users Subdomain Enumeration to discover a Cacti instance with reused credentials from the previous service Cacti instance vulnerable to Authenticated Remote Command Execution leads to an user shell in a Docker container Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable Docker Desktop installation exposing the Docker socket to the containers without authentication 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 10.129.126.11. ...

Description Pterodactyl is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Pterodactyl Server Management Panel allows PHP Code Injection into a file PHP Code Injection leads into Remote Command Execution by using PHP-PEAR User Pivoting by reading credentials saved in a MySQL database Privilege Escalation via Incorrect Authorization vulnerability in Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) and the allow_active setting in Polkit and libblockdev leading to execution of a SUID-root shell 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 10.129.1.99. ...