Naveen Jagadeesan

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Proving grounds Play: Election1
Jul 18, 2023
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Proving grounds Play - Election1 CTF writeup.

Walkthrough on Youtube

youtube

NMAP

PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   2048 20d1ed84cc68a5a786f0dab8923fd967 (RSA)
|   256 7889b3a2751276922af98d27c108a7b9 (ECDSA)
|_  256 b8f4d661cf1690c5071899b07c70fdc0 (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.29 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: OPTIONS HEAD GET POST
|_http-title: Apache2 Ubuntu Default Page: It works
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Web Discovery

Fuzzing for Directories

http://192.168.176.211/FUZZ/

web_fuzz

Landing webpage

web_fuzz

http://192.168.176.211/election/FUZZ/

web_fuzz

More directory fuzzing…🏃

web_fuzz

Found a log file at http://192.168.176.211/election/admin/logs/

log

Contents of the log file

[2020-01-01 00:00:00] Assigned Password for the user love: P@$$w0rd@123
[2020-04-03 00:13:53] Love added candidate 'Love'.
[2020-04-08 19:26:34] Love has been logged in from Unknown IP on Firefox (Linux).

Credentials

love: P@$$w0rd@123

SSH Login using extracted credentials

ssh

local

Privilege Escalation

SUIDs

SUI

Searchsploit search

------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------
 Exploit Title                                                    |  Path
------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------
RhinoSoft Serv-U FTP Server 3.x < 5.x - Local Privilege Escalatio | windows/local/381.c
Serv-U FTP Server - prepareinstallation Privilege Escalation (Met | linux/local/47072.rb
Serv-U FTP Server - prepareinstallation Privilege Escalation (Met | linux/local/47072.rb
Serv-U FTP Server < 15.1.7 - Local Privilege Escalation (1)       | linux/local/47009.c
Serv-U FTP Server < 15.1.7 - Local Privilege Escalation (2)       | multiple/local/47173.sh
------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------
  • Copy the exploit code to the attacking machine usig wget.
  • Apply required permission chmod 755 exploit.sh.
  • run the exploit.sh file.

Root Shell

Root user access and proof.txt obtained

root

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