Challenge Overview

You are a penetration tester tasked with evaluating the security of Synixon, a technology company specializing in the development of processor chipsets. The company relies on a hybrid web infrastructure that integrates modern ChatOps tools with legacy administrative panels. Starting with no credentials, your mission is to assess the exposed services, uncover weaknesses, and escalate privileges through multiple layers of 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 administrator. The ultimate goal is to fully compromise the underlying system and retrieve the final flag.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying exposed services and mapping the attack surface using tools like Nmap.
  • Intercepting and manipulating chatbot communication over WebSocket to bypass authentication and gain supervisor access.
  • Exploiting Local File Inclusion (LFI) to uncover sensitive files and development artifacts.
  • Leveraging Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) to execute arbitrary commands on the server.
  • Achieving root-level access through a reverse shell and retrieving the final flag.

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