Challenge Overview

ForceZero, a private software firm, has engaged you as a penetration tester to perform penetration testing for their organization. It is done as part of the requirement to comply with the latest cybersecurity regulatory guidelines from the government. Your task is to perform penetration testing on the targeted critical system and identify any weaknesses. Your target is a web server running on Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.193. You are required to discover and exploit the web application vulnerabilities and perform various attack techniques to gain access to the web server machine and find the contents of the flag.txt and root.txt files. By completing this task, you will gain hands-on knowledge in web applications hacking and pentesting.

What You Will Learn

  • Enumerating and identifying vulnerabilities in a misconfigured Jenkins server running on Ubuntu.
  • Exploiting Jenkins to execute arbitrary commands and establish a reverse shell on the target machine.
  • Performing post-exploitation enumeration to identify privilege escalation vectors within the system.
  • Abusing a sudo misconfiguration involving hping3 to escalate privileges to root.
  • Achieving full system compromise by retrieving sensitive files such as flag.txt and root.txt from the target machine.

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