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Report Library CTF

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Scan

I have used Nmap to find the open ports and found the port 22(SSH) and 80 (http) open. Once i found the http open port i have visited the link the IP Address it refered to & found a username saying meliodas.

Search

I have used Dirsearch to find the hidden directories and found the name rockyou in the robots.txt file which seems to be a clue to Brute Force. maybe the wordlist to be used can be rockyou.txt.

dirsearch -u targetIPaddress

Crack !

I just assumed the username for SSH to be meliodas and started hydra over it.

hydra -l meliodas -P /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt ssh://ta.rg.et.Ip// | tee password.txt

The above command will bruteforce the username password and prints it to console and also the file.

Into the SSH

I have logged into the ssh and i got access to the meliodas user and got the user flag.

Inside the Meliodas

In the home directory i found 2 files user.txt-> user flag & back.py -> seems to be a backup code. We need to have sudo privileges to directly execute the back.py. sudo -l will return with the set of commands the user can execute using the sudo previlages. Here in this case we have permission to execute /usr/bin/python,/home/meliodas/back.py with sudo privileges this can be checked by,

sudo -l

The directories with NOPASSWORD mentioned can be accessible by meliodas hence running directly bak.py will not be accessed but can be executed using the following command

/usr/bin/python bak.py

will have result now we can modify bak.py using echo to bringup the shell by,

echo 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/sh")' > bak.py

Now we can execute bak.py using the same command

sudo /usr/bin/python bak.py

And can get the root shell.

Learning

Explore how to add the user to limit the user to execute the commands with sudo privileges.

Task

Add the /usr/share/python to your current user to execute python files with sudo privileges.