Challenge Overview

You are hired by a company as a security consultant in a cybersecurity firm. The system administrator in the firm recently created groups and added users to the machine. He has instructed that penetration testing be done on the machine to see whether new changes can result in low-level users getting unintentional root access. Your target machine is running on Linux Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.212. Your mission is to gain system access, escalate privileges to root access, find the user.txt and root.txt files, and submit the flag values. By completing this task, you will gain hands-on knowledge of system hacking and privilege escalation techniques.

What You Will Learn

  • Enumerating a Linux system to identify users, groups, and potential misconfigurations.
  • Gaining initial system access through vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
  • Analyzing user permissions and group configurations for privilege escalation opportunities.
  • Exploiting misconfigured services or permissions to escalate privileges to root.
  • Locating and retrieving sensitive files such as user.txt and root.txt to capture the required flags.

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