HackTheBox - Code

IppSec · Beginner ·🔐 Cybersecurity ·12mo ago

Key Takeaways

Evaluates a HackTheBox challenge using nmap, Python code execution, and filter evasion techniques

Original Description

00:00 - Introduction 00:50 - Start of nmap 01:50 - Navigating to the page and discovering we can run Python Code but there is a filter blocking certain words 05:00 - Walking through filter evasion with python, showing loaded classes 07:45 - Calling popen to run a command 11:50 - Using List Comprehension in python to convert our multiline payload into a single line 14:30 - Looking at the database, grabbing the hash, cracking and switching users 16:00 - We can use sudo to run backy.sh with task.json, looking at the bash script to see we have a way to bypass the filter 20:10 - Having trouble exploiting out of a temp directory, will explain later 24:50 - Copying task.json to a different directory and it magically works 27:00 - Explaining why we couldn't do this in a temp directory, sticky bit makes it a protected file! 35:20 - Showing another way to root it, just ignore the ../ replacement and since bash continues on error by default it still works
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Chapters (12)

Introduction
0:50 Start of nmap
1:50 Navigating to the page and discovering we can run Python Code but there is a f
5:00 Walking through filter evasion with python, showing loaded classes
7:45 Calling popen to run a command
11:50 Using List Comprehension in python to convert our multiline payload into a sin
14:30 Looking at the database, grabbing the hash, cracking and switching users
16:00 We can use sudo to run backy.sh with task.json, looking at the bash script to
20:10 Having trouble exploiting out of a temp directory, will explain later
24:50 Copying task.json to a different directory and it magically works
27:00 Explaining why we couldn't do this in a temp directory, sticky bit makes it a
35:20 Showing another way to root it, just ignore the ../ replacement and since bash
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