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Type your comment> @traut said:

Hm, I got user and root flags in one go. Is that the intended way?

Fun box, I enjoyed it a lot. Thank you, @ASHacker

I don’t think so :smiley: but you would have missed on a couple of interesting things if you skipped all the privesc.

Rooted.
Interesting box. I could learn some new things.

@traut said:

Hm, I got user and root flags in one go. Is that the intended way?

I don’t think so but I can certainly see how it would be possible and if you haven’t done the early enumeration properly, it is by far the easiest path.

Thanks to @ASHacker for this awesome machine, the hardest part is the initial foothold, everything else is absolutly easy.

My Hints:

Initial Foothold

  • Approach that he talks about himself
  • Investigate about this new service and how you can approach it (CVE)

User

  • Looks like they aren’t useless

Lateral-Movement

  • Memorize things is not always good

Root

  • Your crew is more powerful than you think

Hope my hints are not spoiling the machine, if they are doing it remove the post

Rooted just now. This was a fun box, nothing super new but tests a bunch of essential skills.

PM me if you want a nudge but be prepared to tell me what you’ve tried first.

Finally rooted.

The most tricky part for me was de passwd to encadenated exploiting.
To people in this place a hint could be use another tool (it was not common for me) . to go to the place i change mi foots to the sky.

Way to root was easy.

Funny box, thank the author.

Got past the first login page and went down a steg rabbit hole on the image. I have found the reference the author was talking about but need a nudge on where to start looking. PM please, no spoilers :wink:

some nudge to h** ? lot of cve but cant work it :neutral:

This machine is pissing off me, i found s****j but when i tried i got connection time out and what i found is (c…d=.) not working(not be inj). Also pinging it sometimes connection lost. Only thing what i need to do is wait and trust my luck?

Found stuff after much messing and hints on here.
Is the “gateway” meant to be running?

@bobthebadger said:

Found stuff after much messing and hints on here.
Is the “gateway” meant to be running?

Not sure what it exactly is meant to be, but:
I anything tells you it was disabled, then someone broke the service, again, and you need to reset the machine (there should really be some kind of cronjob that periodically fixes the broken config file).

Type your comment> @HomeSen said:

@bobthebadger said:

Found stuff after much messing and hints on here.
Is the “gateway” meant to be running?

Not sure what it exactly is meant to be, but:
I anything tells you it was disabled, then someone broke the service, again, and you need to reset the machine (there should really be some kind of cronjob that periodically fixes the broken config file).

Thanks, I try to avoid resets where possible, as I know how annoying they can be to everyone, but it it’s broken…I’ll have to “turn it off and on again”.

I try to avoid them, too. But it took me quite a long time to realize (or rather get pointed to the fact) that something that said it were disabled, should actually be enabled/available.
And when people follow a certain guide and use a certain readily available script, then things will break for everyone :wink:

Interesting box. Renew many things I thought I knew, but actually, I’m not :-).

Type your comment> @HomeSen said:

@bobthebadger said:

Found stuff after much messing and hints on here.
Is the “gateway” meant to be running?

Not sure what it exactly is meant to be, but:
I anything tells you it was disabled, then someone broke the service, again, and you need to reset the machine (there should really be some kind of cronjob that periodically fixes the broken config file).

Definitely agree! This machine is pissing me off like anything else before! :frowning:

rooted the box, got root then user. thanks to creators for this great box.
pm me for help if you needed.

This box really tested my patience. It was a great learning experience, thx @ASHacker .

Spoiler Removed

I truly have no fucking clue how you guys are getting from the author page, to this H** thing. It’s obvious from the comments here what the eventual service must be, but I don’t see any link to it whatsoever when googling. Also, how is anyone even dirbing this box? I can run through like 800 words before each reset. Really annoying.

edit: ■■■■■■■■ it, that was so obvious. How did I not see that.
For anyone else in the same boat: don’t keep fuzzing the box. You know how usually in windows boxes you need to change your hosts file to something very similar to the box name, if not the name itself? Well, that doesnt exactly apply here.

Rooted. Very fun box, but I get the impression that I didn’t follow the intended path, as I didn’t get the user flag until I was root.