Hint for Waldo

WOW!!! Just Wow! If it weren’t for this forum, I never would have completed this box. Thank you all for your helpful posts!

I was going to be upset about this box, but now after getting root, I actually enjoyed it.

It wasn’t so much a puzzle as having to solution be something that I’ve never seen/used before, which is one of the reasons I love these boxes.

I’d seen the different pieces of how to own this box before, but the way they were obfuscated and tweaked was really cool.

Thank you to those who helped me through it. :smile:

Good box.

And Rooted !

First off thanks to those for the tips - I’d say all the tips here are usefull without giving the game away

As for the Box

At first it irritated me but i reckon a lot of the problems i had with initial foothold were down to constant resets and i presume some bruteforcing going on. From what ive seen so far brute forcing and reverse shells arent often needed - the boxes are designed to test yous skills in other ways.

Once i got going - what a trip ! this one is a real learning curve and certainly made me think !

I cant add anymore hints as they have allready been posted in this thread, but feel free to PM for hints .

finally rooted
nice box
but i’m pretty curious now to know if and how theres a way to get a full root shell
if anyone know’s, PM me pls

I’m also close to the end. I can see the file, I can understand, how capable it is, but … I’m looking into the source and wondering, how is it possible to make it to read file of your choice (or at least root.txt)?

I have user.txt, i need some help to have root.

@sckull said:
I have user.txt, i need some help to have root.

me too :confused:

finally got user. until now this box was far away from not being a nightmare :slight_smile:
thx to those guys who helped me out on finishing step 1.

Has anybody managed to get a root shell on this box or is is it indeed possible? thanks

Great machine user Easy but root easy too but i never use al***** linux it made my brain all over the place

thanks for the good machine all the people who supported me :stuck_out_tongue: you all know who you are…

\o/ I got root.
Great machine!
PM if you need help

can some one pm me for assistance in key formatting, feel like ive tried everything!

Got root.
Nice to learn some new (old) functionality about Linux. But the way to get to the root flag is to simple, especially compared to the effort for getting the user flag.

I’m not very good with priv esc, would someone PM me a hint? Hopefully an educational hint, thanks :slight_smile:

The traversal hint was great, gotta think about the functions…now stuck on the ‘capabilities’ of a certain program…no idea where/how to use it…

Same here. I did search on the topic but still didn’t managed to get root.txt

Rooted…

The box is quite unconvention.

Shoutout to my bros who helped me in the box @crysthoffer @Sp4rtan, couldn’t have done it without you guys.

PM or telegram me (on the same username) for help.

HI,

I found the key for the user M******. But I’m unable to login with this key, I get the error → permission denied. Is this a rabbit hole or I’m doing a mistake?

Thank you

Did it. I’m so stupid :slight_smile:

Any pointers on escaping?

Hey, I got ssh but I’m stuck at privesc, can someone point me the right direction or is available to talk about the machine?

Already escaped, found the file but I’m stuck.

Thanks,