HackTheBox - Jewel

IppSec · Beginner ·📰 AI News & Updates ·5y ago

Key Takeaways

Analyzes the HackTheBox Jewel challenge using nmap, Brakeman, and GitWeb to identify vulnerabilities in a RAILS application

Original Description

00:00 - Introduction 00:54 - Start of nmap, going into why it needs sudo 04:15 - Checking Phusion Passenger version 06:15 - Downloading the source code from port 8000 (GitWeb) 07:50 - Using Brakeman to analyze the source code to the RAILS App 09:15 - Checking Rails release date to see it is old 11:35 - Researching CVE-2020-8165 and checking if our application is vulnerable 15:30 - Performing the CVE-2020-8165 serialization exploit 16:00 - Fixing my APT from expired: signature could not be verified because public key is not available NO_PUBKEY 18:15 - Installing RAILS Then building our deserialization 27:50 - Reverse shell returned 31:00 - LinPEAS showed some password hashes, lets check out those files to see if there was more passwords 33:15 - Cracking the passwords, then finding sudo requires a 2FA Password 35:45 - Finding .google_authenticator 42:00 - Installing oathtool 42:50 - Using OathTool to read out google_auth file to generate the One Time Pad (OTP) 44:30 - Switching to TOTP Mode, then lots of issues because of AM/PM 51:51 - Changing the timezone of our box to Europe/London to get away from conversions 56:00 - Our date went up an entire day! Fixing the day then getting a shell
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Chapters (19)

Introduction
0:54 Start of nmap, going into why it needs sudo
4:15 Checking Phusion Passenger version
6:15 Downloading the source code from port 8000 (GitWeb)
7:50 Using Brakeman to analyze the source code to the RAILS App
9:15 Checking Rails release date to see it is old
11:35 Researching CVE-2020-8165 and checking if our application is vulnerable
15:30 Performing the CVE-2020-8165 serialization exploit
16:00 Fixing my APT from expired: signature could not be verified because public key
18:15 Installing RAILS Then building our deserialization
27:50 Reverse shell returned
31:00 LinPEAS showed some password hashes, lets check out those files to see if ther
33:15 Cracking the passwords, then finding sudo requires a 2FA Password
35:45 Finding .google_authenticator
42:00 Installing oathtool
42:50 Using OathTool to read out google_auth file to generate the One Time Pad (OTP)
44:30 Switching to TOTP Mode, then lots of issues because of AM/PM
51:51 Changing the timezone of our box to Europe/London to get away from conversions
56:00 Our date went up an entire day! Fixing the day then getting a shell
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