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DogCat – Exploiting LFI and Docker Privilege Escalation -TryHackMe Walkthrough
In this walkthrough, we’ll explore the Dogcat room on TryHackMe, a box that features a Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability and Docker privilege escalation. LFI allows us to read sensitive files from the system and eventually gain access to the server.There are a total of 4 flags in this machine which we need to find.…
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Cyborg – TryHackMe Walkthrough
A step-by-step TryHackMe Cyborg walkthrough to achieve root access. Learn essential techniques for web enumeration, SSH access, and privilege escalation.
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OverPass – TryHackMe Walkthrough
A step-by-step TryHackMe Overpass walkthrough, guiding you through reconnaissance, web enumeration, SSH access, and privilege escalation to root.
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Prime: 1 – Walkthrough for OSCP Series
Prime: 1 is a challenging boot2root machine created by Suraj Pandey. It is designed for those who are preparing for the OSCP exam and is a great way to practice your penetration testing skills. In this blog post, I will walk you through the steps I took to root the machine, including: Performing a port…
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LazySysAdmin – Vulnhub walkthrough
LazySysAdmin is an easy to crack VM. There are multiple ways to crack this machine, several ports and mis-configured services are present inside this box. The takeaway from this machine for me is to understand a service better and thinking simpler to get root privileges after we are able to exploit a badly configured service.…
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digital world.local: Vengeance Walkthrough – OSCP Way
Vengeance is one of the digital world.local series which makes vulnerable boxes closer to OSCP labs. This box has a lot of services and there could be multiple ways to exploit this, Below is what I have tried. Lab requirement: 1. Kali VM 2. Download Vengeance: https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/digitalworldlocal-vengeance,704 3. Some patience. I have written article already…
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DC-9 Vulnhub Walkthrough – OSCP way
Recently, My focus turned more towards OSCP and I am thinking of taking the exam. After reading tons of people’s experience over Reddit, I took some notes on what would be my way of studying for this. It isn’t easy from the looks of it and to win with time, I need a lot of…
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Empire: LupinOne Walkthrough – Privilege escalation through Python Libs
This article is a walkthrough for Empire LupinOne vulnerable machine. You can download this from vulnhub. The vulnerable machine is full of fuzzing and escalation of privileges by exploiting Python libraries with SUID being setup. Let’s look into exploiting this: Requirements: 1. Vmware/Virtual Box < This is to run the vulnerable machine. 2. Download LupinOne…
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Log4Shell Quick Lab Setup for Testing
Last month, On December 09 2021, The release of a Remote Code Execution POC over twitter involving exploitation of Apache’s log4j2 logging class took everyone’s peace away. The attack was pretty simple and the fact that it can be easily exploited by anyone is what made this more terrifying. The first edition of this attack…
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Pwned Vulnhub Walkthrough
Pwned vulnhub challenge is an easy boot2root machine. One of the key take away from this machine is how you can escalate your privileges using Dockers. This blog post is about how I exploited this machine and what are the different tools I used to make that happen. Below are the requirements: You can get…
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Insecure Code Management – Git
Insecure code management is when part of the code exposes sensitive information which shouldn’t be exposed to the world. Now it can happen in a lot of situation where the API keys/Passwords are hard-coded and it has been shared mistakenly by the developers. This article will cover the part of Git version control feature and…