HackTheBox - BlockBlock

IppSec · Beginner ·🔐 Cybersecurity ·1y ago
00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Start of nmap 02:15 - Registering an account and discovering the chat, examining source and seeing a database solidity contract 04:45 - Testing for XSS, discovering it within the username 06:00 - The /api/info page exposes the JWT, which lets us exfiltrate it even if HTTPONLY is set 07:10 - Using FeroxBuster to enumerate the API with different methods 10:00 - Discovering XSS in the Report feature, and get a hit from the admin, create a JS Payload to exfiltrate the admin token 16:00 - We are now the admin, which has access to a new endpoint that interacts with the blockchain via the json-rpc API playing with endpoints 19:00 - Playing with eth_getAccount 19:30 - Playing with eth_getBlockByNumber, then viewing information on the chain. Enumerating all blocks will start revealing credentials 25:30 - Shell on the box as Keira, can run forge as paul which we can exploit two ways 26:15 - Exploiting forge with path injection since the sudo has no env_reset set 29:10 - Exploiting forge with the build flag that has command injection 31:00 - Paul can run pacman as root, which we can exploit a few ways. First we create a hook on any package operation that runs a command 35:40 - We could also just build a package that drops a new file, creating a malicious cron 40:30 - Creating a package that just runs a command
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Chapters (16)

Introduction
1:00 Start of nmap
2:15 Registering an account and discovering the chat, examining source and seeing a
4:45 Testing for XSS, discovering it within the username
6:00 The /api/info page exposes the JWT, which lets us exfiltrate it even if HTTPON
7:10 Using FeroxBuster to enumerate the API with different methods
10:00 Discovering XSS in the Report feature, and get a hit from the admin, create a
16:00 We are now the admin, which has access to a new endpoint that interacts with t
19:00 Playing with eth_getAccount
19:30 Playing with eth_getBlockByNumber, then viewing information on the chain. Enum
25:30 Shell on the box as Keira, can run forge as paul which we can exploit two ways
26:15 Exploiting forge with path injection since the sudo has no env_reset set
29:10 Exploiting forge with the build flag that has command injection
31:00 Paul can run pacman as root, which we can exploit a few ways. First we create
35:40 We could also just build a package that drops a new file, creating a malicious
40:30 Creating a package that just runs a command
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