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First time trying a Release Arena…gl all

Wow found nothing with 40 mins of enum any nudges you guys?

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Type your comment> @Lalith71 said:

Wow found nothing with 40 mins of enum any nudges you guys?

same here any nudges? Thanks

The machine is rated 2.5 by now, and the first 25 players succeeded somehow. After searching for more than an hour without any progress this just frustrates me.

Same boat here. These guessing games make the box harder

@ruskii said:
Same boat here. These guessing games make the box harder

It’s probably the stupidest ■■■■ that I ignored somehow

Type your comment> @Markerpullus said:

@ruskii said:
Same boat here. These guessing games make the box harder

It’s probably the stupidest ■■■■ that I ignored somehow

Did you find something?

Type your comment> @ruskii said:

Type your comment> @Markerpullus said:

@ruskii said:
Same boat here. These guessing games make the box harder

It’s probably the stupidest ■■■■ that I ignored somehow

Did you find something?

Nope i am struggling

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once you identify the version of a specific service, make sure to research a bit because it could take some time to find anything.

rooted. And rated it 1 Star. Really didn’t like it and didn’t learn anything on it.

Foothold: the box is highly rated as CVE. Just because there isn’t a wordpress or something else running doesn’t mean something below can’t be vulnerable
User: it’s granted
Root: the vector should be found via about the first command you should run as user. If you’re familiar with it, good for you. If not try it and look for something that sounds very promising at first glance already.

This is a box that makes you want to improve your googling skills. I had the right idea for user but struggled for quite some time until I found what I was looking for.

Root was very obvious but I still missed the simple command that could be used in the large amount of help text.

■■■■, finally rooted after 2 hours of googling. User flag got me stuck for a long time and google just won’t show me the stuff I wanted to see lol

Why doesn’t Nikto flag this right away ?!?

Rooted!

root@knife:/opt# id && hostname && ifconfig
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
knife
ens160: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.10.10.242  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.10.10.255
        inet6 dead:beef::250:56ff:feb9:befe  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::250:56ff:feb9:befe  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:50:56:b9:be:fe  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2722013  bytes 412311064 (412.3 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 66  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2509092  bytes 1106488505 (1.1 GB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

What fooled me was the ‘CVE’ rate matrix. This is not a traditionally CVE as we all know, however it is easy to find, just a bit of Googling :wink:

Stuck working on this for a few hours with no foothold. I see the p*p version but not sure if I’m going down a rabbithole. Any nudges :pensive: ?