Challenge Overview

As part of a security compliance team, you’ve been tasked with preventing a potential disaster for a technology company. A recent intelligence report suggests an insider is attempting to steal confidential documents from a vulnerable CMS server. Your objective is to identify and exploit vulnerabilities within the server to gain access before the insider can execute their plan. Once successful, you will report your findings to your superiors to help mitigate the threat and secure the organization's data.

This experience requires knowledge of Linux weak file permissions, red team methodologies, and readable shadow files. Demonstrate skills in root password cracking and privilege escalation. The target machine runs on Linux Ubuntu with an IP address of 10.10.1.7. You have user-level SSH access to the machine, and the credentials are michal and LcnjR95&\$Q. The mission is to get root access to the system, find the flag.txt file, and submit the flag value.

What You Will Learn

  • Identifying and exploiting weak file permissions and readable shadow files on a Linux system.
  • Cracking root passwords and escalating privileges to gain unauthorized access.
  • Applying red team methodologies to uncover and exploit system vulnerabilities.
  • Leveraging user-level SSH access to achieve root access and retrieve sensitive data.

Program Curriculum

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