
HackTheBox Writeup - Instant
Instant is a medium difficulty machine that includes reverse engineering a mobile application, exploiting API endpoints, and cracking encrypted hashes and files. Players will analyze an APK to extr...
Instant is a medium difficulty machine that includes reverse engineering a mobile application, exploiting API endpoints, and cracking encrypted hashes and files. Players will analyze an APK to extr...
Heal is a medium-difficult Linux machine that features a website vulnerable to arbitrary file read, allowing us to extract sensitive credentials. The server also hosts a LimeSurvey instance, where ...
LinkVortex is an easy-difficulty Linux machine with various ways to leverage symbolic link files (symlinks). The initial foothold involves discovering an exposed .git directory that can be dumped t...
Alert is an easy-difficulty Linux machine with a website to upload, view, and share markdown files. The site is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS), which is exploited to access an internal pa...
Administrator is a medium-difficulty Windows machine designed around a complete domain compromise scenario, where credentials for a low-privileged user are provided. To gain access to the michael a...
Chemistry is an easy-difficulty Linux machine that showcases a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in the pymatgen (CVE-2024-23346) Python library by uploading a malicious CIF file to the hos...
Sightless is an easy-difficulty Linux machine featuring a website for a company offering various services. Enumeration of the website reveals an SQLPad instance vulnerable to template injection [CV...
Sea is an Easy Difficulty Linux machine that features CVE-2023-41425 in WonderCMS, a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that can be used to upload a malicious module, allowing access to the s...
Cicada is an easy-difficult Windows machine that focuses on beginner Active Directory enumeration and exploitation. In this machine, players will enumerate the domain, identify users, navigate shar...
Cap is an easy difficulty Linux machine running an HTTP server that performs administrative functions including performing network captures. Improper controls result in Insecure Direct Object Refer...
GreenHorn is an easy difficulty machine that takes advantage of an exploit in Pluck to achieve Remote Code Execution and then demonstrates the dangers of pixelated credentials. The machine also sho...
PermX is an Easy Difficulty Linux machine featuring a learning management system vulnerable to unrestricted file uploads via CVE-2023-4220. This vulnerability is leveraged to gain a foothold on the...
Editorial is an easy difficulty Linux machine that features a publishing web application vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). This vulnerability is leveraged to gain access to an inter...
In this lab, you will exploit a file upload vulnerability in a custom REST API service to gain initial access as a low-privilege user. You will escalate privileges using Bash Gobbling combined with...
In this lab, we will exploit an arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the wpDiscuz version 7.0.4 plugin to achieve initial access to the system. We will then escalate privileges using weak credent...