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Exploits NextJS middleware vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) on HackTheBox using Nmap and BurpSuite

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00:00 - Introduction 01:00 - Start of nmap 03:44 - Wappalyzer detects NextJS and shows the version, looking at CVE's 07:20 - Looking at the nextjs middleware vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) 09:50 - Our nuclei scan didn't detect it, looking at templates, it should but needs the headless flag 12:20 - Adding the x-middleware-subrequest to our request to bypass auth 15:05 - Setting BurpSuite to add a header, so we don't have to manually add the middleware to our request 17:20 - Discovering a File Disclosure in the examples 19:20 - Building a skeleton project to find configs, grabbing package.json then using npm build 24:15 - Finding credentials in the nextauth, getting credentials and then logging in with SSH 25:45 - We can run a specific terraform command with sudo, env_reset is not enabled but we can't edit path 29:30 - Declaring source_file in our environment, which then will use it in the script. Using SymLink to read unintended files 34:15 - Doing the same thing with source_file but changing the symlink to be the file we write, to have an elevated file write vuln 37:15 - Editing the terraform config to change the terraform provider and get RCE
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Introduction
1:00 Start of nmap
3:44 Wappalyzer detects NextJS and shows the version, looking at CVE's
7:20 Looking at the nextjs middleware vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927)
9:50 Our nuclei scan didn't detect it, looking at templates, it should but needs th
12:20 Adding the x-middleware-subrequest to our request to bypass auth
15:05 Setting BurpSuite to add a header, so we don't have to manually add the middle
17:20 Discovering a File Disclosure in the examples
19:20 Building a skeleton project to find configs, grabbing package.json then using
24:15 Finding credentials in the nextauth, getting credentials and then logging in w
25:45 We can run a specific terraform command with sudo, env_reset is not enabled bu
29:30 Declaring source_file in our environment, which then will use it in the script
34:15 Doing the same thing with source_file but changing the symlink to be the file
37:15 Editing the terraform config to change the terraform provider and get RCE
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