@axle05 said:
Got the password idk*********. But not sure how to proceed from there. Any hint please?
You are near the user finish line. Finding where to use the password is one of the last steps.
I found the place to use this password. Unfortunately I’m stuck there now: I see 3 different vulns, but is quite certain those are for another version. Does this sound correct?
There is most definitely a vulnerability that can be exploited.
@axle05 said:
Got the password idk*********. But not sure how to proceed from there. Any hint please?
You are near the user finish line. Finding where to use the password is one of the last steps.
I found the place to use this password. Unfortunately I’m stuck there now: I see 3 different vulns, but is quite certain those are for another version. Does this sound correct?
There is most definitely a vulnerability that can be exploited.
Hey. I got the idk password, and filled in the shell via csv file, but I can’t do anything and get the shell. Metasploit does not open the session, give a hint
How the heck do you see addresses without usual g** tool? I’ve tried with s***ce but I’m stuck. Anyone willing to PM me a pointer to the right tool? I’m not in a position to spin up another VM so I’d like to do it right on the box itself.
@LegendarySpork said:
How the heck do you see addresses without usual g** tool? I’ve tried with s***ce but I’m stuck. Anyone willing to PM me a pointer to the right tool? I’m not in a position to spin up another VM so I’d like to do it right on the box itself.
The TL;DR is that you don’t need to spin up another VM. If you don’t want to watch through the videos, just think about what exactly you need from g** and find the tools that get that information.
Edit: got root. Not hard, I just needed some rest. It turns out I have a system with the right architecture for development and I’ve even used the relevant tools before for debugging. I definitely would not want to try this without a system to do the development on.
Took me a very long time lol, I’d never attempted the method required for priv esc (well seriously attempted), feels so good to have pulled it off successfuly!
Feel free to message me and I’ll try my best to help w/o spoiling
@l30n said:
Yeah someone told me you can do everything on the machine as a www-data user? Can anyone verify that?
Yes - no escalation to another user required for rooting the box!
To everybody struggling with priv esc: I’d recommend again to search for videos on retired boxes that required the same type of BOF - and to practice with one of these boxes if you are VIP.
For me, those videos were the best and fairly self-contained ‘step-by-step’ tutorials for that method. If you rooted one of the old boxes, you should be able to use your old exploit script as a template!
I have to say I hate and love this box! There were so many twists and turns with the getting of user portion BUT it reminded me to always try different techniques on enumeration and not to stay with just one program. It also reminded me to not ignore anything to document all the steps.
Root access took me longer than it should have because I read the forum and wanted to do privesc without the r** route. I never did find that other method or get the other methods I thought should work to work.
Again with priv esc it made you think of different ways/tools to get the job done without using the old standby.
A lot of great tips already posted in the thread here about how to move about this machine.