Challenge Overview

You are a penetration tester tasked with assessing the security of Synixon, a company specializing in processor chipset development. The target infrastructure includes a ChatOps tool integrated into its web environment. Your objective is to enumerate exposed services, identify potential vulnerabilities, and escalate privileges. The ultimate goal is to gain elevated access within the application. The target machine is running Ubuntu OS with the IP address 10.10.1.111. Your objective is to identify, exploit, and chain together vulnerabilities that allow you to escalate from an unauthenticated external user to a high-privileged user.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying exposed services and application endpoints using tools like Nmap.
  • Interacting with and modifying real-time chatbot communication via WebSocket using Burp Suite.
  • Exploiting weaknesses in the password reset mechanism to gain supervisor-level access.
  • Leveraging Local File Inclusion (LFI) and exposed debug interfaces to access sensitive files and logs.
  • Creating a new administrator account through hidden functionalities and accessing the legacy admin portal to retrieve the final flag.

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