It’s been 3 weeks since I got into this wonderful world of pentesting. I’ve done a few machines here but his has been one of the most enjoyable ones for me so far. So great job on this box @mrR3boot!
I really struggled with a python script, everything seemed perfectly fine, but I got a different answer than I expected every time. It helped to pass an extra argument to a method somewhere (silly me).
I didn’t get a root shell but was able to get the root flag anyway. I assume it’s through the same escalation method though.
Hints:
@olsv gave a really good hints for the initial foothold.
root: it helps if you can code in a certain language