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Nullcon Winja CTF 2022 Writeups - Active Directory image

Challenge-1 Blemflarck The Galactic Federation is taking control over the universe using a group of superheroes. The world’s redemption is in your hands. Enter the intergalactic portal and sabotag...

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Recently, I stumbled on an initiative “The Auror Project” by Sudarshan Pisupati which was starting a course called “3 Machine Labs”. “3 Machine Labs” is a challenge based learning approach to soli...

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Vault is medium to hard difficulty machine, which requires bypassing host and file upload restrictions, tunneling, creating malicious OpenVPN configuration files and PGP decryption. Reconnaissance ...

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Knife is an easy difficulty Linux machine that features an application which is running on a backdoored version of PHP: PHP/8.1.0-dev. This vulnerability is leveraged to obtain the foothold on the...

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Ypuffy is medium difficulty machine which highlights the danger of allowing LDAP null sessions. It also features an interesting SSH CA authentication privilege escalation, via the OpenBSD doas com...

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Giddy is a super cool box which gives real-life experience by Bypassing Windows Defender, Applock and Constrained Language Mode. It starts with enumeration leading to a site which is vulnerable to ...

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Love is an easy box, Awesome for beginners. Starts with a SSRF to access a forbidden page meant to be accessed locally which leaks credentials for a Voting system. That voting system allows anyone ...

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Foothold starts with Wordpress plugin gwolle-gb which is vulnerable to Remote File-Inclusion. You can get user by exploiting sudo privileges on tar, then grabbing MySQL DB password from web-root an...

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Olympus is CTF-like box. Starting with exploting X-Debug plugin in Apache with just HTTP Headers which gives you a container shell. You pivot to other containers while exploring techniques like 802...

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Stratosphere is a pretty cool box with an Apache Struts vulnerability in which endpoints ending with .action, .go, .do can be injected with a specially crafted Content-Header leading to Remote code...