Challenge Overview

A software company hires you as a penetration tester. The system administrator in the firm recently added a user to a machine and wants to determine the account's level of access. He has instructed that a pen test be done on the machine to see whether new changes can result in low-level users getting unintentional root access. Your task is to check if there is any misconfiguration that will lead to privilege escalation. Provide your findings to the Chief Information Officer in a report. This Challenge requires knowledge of binary exploitation, binary analysis, and privilege escalation using various tools. Demonstrate network scanning skills to gather information on targets. The target is a machine running on an Ubuntu OS with an IP address of 10.10.1.142. Your task is to discover and exploit the system's vulnerabilities and perform various attack techniques to gain root access. The next objective is to capture the flag.txt file. The credentials to access low-level user is username: password - sedix: F8j**&NmRwNj.

What You Will Learn

  • Performing binary exploitation and analysis to identify and exploit system vulnerabilities.
  • Using network scanning skills to gather information on target systems.
  • Applying privilege escalation techniques to gain unauthorized root access.
  • Conducting a penetration test to assess potential misconfigurations and access levels.

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