HackTheBox - LinkVortex

IppSec · Beginner ·🔐 Cybersecurity ·1y ago

Key Takeaways

Exploits Forgot Password to enumerate valid emails and uses ffuf to enumerate subdomains in LinkVortex

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00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Start of nmap 03:00 - Discovering the Forgot Password lets us enumerate valid emails 04:00 - Using ffuf to enumerate subdomains via virtual host 06:55 - Discovering .git on the dev subdomain, using git-dumper to download the repo 08:20 - Discovering cached files in the .git, one of which has a credential 10:08 - Logged into Ghost, finding the version which shows its vulnerable to CVE-2023-40028 12:20 - Manually performing the Ghost File Disclosure exploit 15:00 - Using the public exploit script to leak the ghost config which gives us an SSH Credential 18:15 - Going over the clean_symlink.h script we can run with sudo, which is vulnerable 3 different ways 19:40 - Showing the Command Injection vulnerability, because of how the script did the if/then logic in bash 20:20 - Showing we can bypass the filter by pointing a symlink to another symlink 26:10 - Showing the race condition, where we can change the contents of the symlink after it checks if it is malicious
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Chapters (13)

Introduction
1:00 Start of nmap
3:00 Discovering the Forgot Password lets us enumerate valid emails
4:00 Using ffuf to enumerate subdomains via virtual host
6:55 Discovering .git on the dev subdomain, using git-dumper to download the repo
8:20 Discovering cached files in the .git, one of which has a credential
10:08 Logged into Ghost, finding the version which shows its vulnerable to CVE-2023-
12:20 Manually performing the Ghost File Disclosure exploit
15:00 Using the public exploit script to leak the ghost config which gives us an SSH
18:15 Going over the clean_symlink.h script we can run with sudo, which is vulnerabl
19:40 Showing the Command Injection vulnerability, because of how the script did the
20:20 Showing we can bypass the filter by pointing a symlink to another symlink
26:10 Showing the race condition, where we can change the contents of the symlink af
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