Forty-three years later-
This machine is the sickest and I mean that in the kindest way possible.
Max-respects, @jkr
You need anything. Please write me.
I’ll do my best for you.
Root was a blast! Solid machine. Go back to the basics 
If someone could pm me a hint for the s**-t***** that would me great. I already got all pieces together but can’t figure this part out
Does anyone have any solid resources/articles for the repo part? I have read through several and am really struggling. I have wget resolving, I have signed .deb and everything else. But I simply can not get the target to pull ANYTHING with a**-g** u*****. pls hlp.
EDIT: PEBKAC - I was tilted and serving from the wrong directory.
I can pull packages but they get “held back” at a later step… respect and beer given to anyone who helps me.
EDIT again: My GOD. What a doozy. I learnt an incredible amount. Probably the hardest yet most rewarding box I have done so far out of everything I have seen here, in vulnhub and in the OSCP labs.
Great box ! What an amazing root dance ! I’ve learned a lot of things and really enjoyed it ! Thank you !
Having issues getting my tunnel working properly. Can’t access the a**** page. I just keep getting forbidden. Can someone please help me with my syntax issues because I feel I am on the right track based off this thread.
Hello
I’m stucked at the root part. I got the successfull.y message, but I don’t know how to find the file. If someone could help me/ could give me a hint, that would be nice.
Got shell, but still don’t have user flag
got root! it’s really interesting box. PM for hint
Stuck staring at the Admin login for the last 2 hours.
Read the entire forum, and can’t find the “file”.
Edit: I’m in. Now stuck at upload part for 2 days.
Edit: On to root…
Woof, I feel like a fool. Can anyone PM me with a nudge? I have the initial s*p access and managed to find some creds with mls, but I am totally stuck on actually getting access to the high port. I understand tunneling is involved but I can’t see how I can activate it with the privileges available. Thanks!
EDIT: nevermind I figured it out. To anyone else also having this issue: make sure you actually understand what you’re doing with the tunneling command, read the docs.
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Check if you do not suddenly have two tun interfaces on your Kali. If so, restart your machine, not the server.
I didn’t check to see if I had more than one tun interface but I did reset my machine. I walked away a couple times and came back fresh throughout the day.
Folks you don’t have to reset or reboot your machine for the tunnel issue. you can just kill your vpn tunnel by “pkill openvpn” and it will remove any openvpn you have established. Everytime you connect to hackthebox, a new interface is created starting from tun range 0, and if you establish another vpn, then you have tun1 & tun0. which then makes it hard for the system to find his gateway. so just “pkill openvpn” and re-establish your vpn
Finally rooted thanks to @siryarbles . Here are some hints that may help:
User: Everything you need is in this forum. In the upload part try to understand how the machine is processing U-Ls, what process first and what next and how htaccess works. Read the code carefully and check ad—s headers from examples.
Root: If you have already found this blog about a-t M–M is the right one. But you will have to do some changes. First, a-p sp—ing is not going to work. Remember network layers… There is a var that a-g uses in some cases. You might have already seen it with s— -l. You don’t need D-S sp—ing either. Just give to the box what it requests. You can use the same thing you found in that var but in your side. After that just read outputs and fix trees.
PM me for hints.
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That was awesome, just beware of the trap, I certainly fell in to it. Drop me a PM if you want pointers.
I had basic shell but have no luck with root… some hint?
Guys for upload php I get 404 not found, tried many other urls, I even created a custom dictionary and ran it with dirb, but still couldn’t fix it, anyone willing to help?
Rooted. Might be the best box I’ve done to date, learned a lot, thanks @jkr
User: no shell required.
Hardest part of this box for me was getting the first shell. Burned a lot of time trying to get my p****n to upload. Finally the light bulb went off. For those of you who get stuck here with a 404, 200, or even the success message - if you can’t easily find your file, you’re doing something wrong.
Root: What to exploit should be apparent pretty quickly. The obvious exploits won’t work though. There’s a useful article in Google that walks through the steps. It needs to be adapted. The steps are a bit tedious and require some trial and error to get things just right.
feel free to PM for hints.
root@onetwoseven:~/bin# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Wow, what a challenge! Phenomenal work @jkr . Super satisfying to do these boxes that don’t rely on some CVE, or on CTF style puzzle, or automation, but just require that you know your stuff (or learn it quick) and figure things out by hand. Tons of fun. I got caught up for an embarrassing amount of time like half a step from root on an incredibly foolish oversight – always consider very deeply exactly what the service/program etc. that you are trying to exploit does. I didn’t and it cost me like 4 hours. PM me for nudges! Also big thanks to @antares341 for giving me the clue I needed to get out of the hole I dug myself into, one of the biggest facepalms in my life when I realized lol.