Hack The Box: Blurry

Description Blurry is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Access to an unauthenticated ClearML server Remote Command Execution in ClearML 1.13.1 application due to Unsafe Deserialization of Untrusted Data Privilege Escalation by using a Pickle file inside a machine learning model and the ability to run a command that can load models as the 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 10.129.127.228. ...

October 12, 2024 · 10 min

Hack The Box: EvilCUPS

Description EvilCUPS is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: CUPS Remote Command Execution Privilege Escalation via leaked credential in past print job 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 10.10.11.40. $ ping -c 3 10.10.11.40 PING 10.10.11.40 (10.10.11.40) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.10.11.40: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=118 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.40: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=117 ms 64 bytes from 10.10.11.40: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=117 ms --- 10.10.11.40 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 116.944/117.494/118.123/0.484 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. ...

October 2, 2024 · 5 min

Hack The Box: BoardLight

Description BoardLight is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Subdomain Enumeration Dolibarr vulnerability that allows remote command execution Password reuse that allows user pivoting Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable SUID Enlightement window manager binary 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 10.129.62.232. $ ping -c 3 10.129.62.232 PING 10.129.62.232 (10.129.62.232) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.62.232: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=55.3 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.62.232: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=57.4 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.62.232: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=56.5 ms --- 10.129.62.232 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 55.290/56.404/57.401/0.865 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. ...

September 28, 2024 · 6 min

Hack The Box: SolarLab

Description SolarLab is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: SMB share enumeration and the download of a file with credentials / SMB user enumeration Password Reuse in a web application ReportLab Library Remote Command Execution vulnerability Sensitive Data Exposure in a database and Password Reuse of an user running an Openfire service Privilege Escalation via a password Blowfish hash cracking of an Openfire service 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 10.129.52.107. ...

September 21, 2024 · 9 min

Hack The Box: Mailing

Description Mailing is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Directory Traversal and Local File Inclusion in a web server Recovery of an user email password using a hash obtained from a configuration file Microsoft Outlook CVE-2024-21413 Remote Command Execution vulnerability to gain an user credential Privilege Escalation via LibreOffice CVE-2023-2255 Local Command Execution 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 10.129.51.252. ...

September 7, 2024 · 9 min

Hack The Box: Runner

Description Runner is an medium Hack The Box machine that features: Subdomain Enumeration to find a TeamCity instance TeamCity vulnerability CVE-2024-27198 that allows unauthenticated administrative account creation Export of a id_rsa SSH private key from a Linux user by exporting a TeamCity project Enumeration of Linux system to find a Portainer instance Remote Command Execution in TeamCity using a malicious plugin to get access to the database Cracking of a TeamCity password hash to obtain the access to Portainer instance Privilege Escalation via mounting a block device as a volume in a container with Portainer 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 10.129.81.22. ...

August 24, 2024 · 11 min

Hack The Box: Usage

Description Usage is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: SQL Injection in a Laravel database to obtain credentials of administrator dashboard Insecure File Upload of PHP files in the administrator dashboard (bypass client filter) User pivoting using hardcoded password in a configuration file Privilege Escalation via a 7z archive application executed 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 10.129.104.234. ...

August 10, 2024 · 9 min

Hack The Box: IClean

Description IClean is a medium Hack The Box machine that features: Cross-Site-Scripting in a contact form (obtains administrator cookie) Python Server Side Template Injection for Command Execution Weak password from an user (reused) obtained from a database with unprotected credentials in hash format Access to privileged files using qpdf tool and its attachments feature 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 10.129.235.68. ...

August 3, 2024 · 8 min

Hack The Box: WifineticTwo

Description WifineticTwo is an medium Hack The Box machine that features: Remote Command Execution in the OpenPLC 3 application Wi-Fi Password Recovery by using WPS protocol and Reaver tool 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 10.129.107.4. $ ping -c 3 10.129.107.4 PING 10.129.107.4 (10.129.107.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.107.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=47.2 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.107.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=46.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.107.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=59.1 ms --- 10.129.107.4 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 46.694/50.990/59.085/5.727 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. ...

July 27, 2024 · 10 min

Hack The Box: Headless

Description Headless is an easy Hack The Box machine that features: Cross Site Scripting (XSS) in a User-Agent field to steal cookies Command Injection in a form Privilege Escalation via a vulnerable script executed with SUDO command 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 10.129.248.249. $ ping -c 3 10.129.248.249 PING 10.129.248.249 (10.129.248.249) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.129.248.249: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=48.2 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.248.249: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=48.7 ms 64 bytes from 10.129.248.249: icmp_seq=3 ttl=63 time=48.4 ms --- 10.129.248.249 ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 48.160/48.421/48.714/0.227 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. ...

July 20, 2024 · 7 min