Challenge Overview

The Service API is an API service provider. You are working as a penetration tester at Service API. As a penetration tester, you have been given the responsibility of conducting a penetration test on the company's web server and exploiting any vulnerabilities discovered and reporting them to management. Your target is a web server running on Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.159. 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

  • Discovering and exploiting the CVE-2020-1938 (Ghostcat) in an exposed Apache Tomcat service to extract sensitive configuration data.
  • Extracting leaked credentials from configuration files and leveraging them for further access.
  • Performing targeted brute-force or password attacks to gain authenticated access to the Ubuntu server.
  • Exploiting an improperly configured SUID-enabled find binary to escalate privileges.
  • Chaining web exploitation, credential attacks, and local privilege escalation to obtain root access and retrieve flag.txt and root.txt.

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