I loved the foothold, took me a minute to figure out, but simple recon tells you how to make it work.
User: definitely make sure to read the output of your tools! I didn’t and it made this take a lot longer than it needed to.
Root: I knew what I needed to do from the first step of my recon, but doing it actually took me two hours of bashing my head on the wall. I ended up trying two of the available and relevant scripts but the quiet one never seemed to execute my payload under any circumstances and the caver only worked after a machine reset. I wonder if something was subtly breaking the relevant service in the process of exploitation? From watching ps on the box I know a lot of people were trying the quiet one, haha.