HTB: Planning
Planning is an easy Linux machine that demonstrates CVE-2024-9264 to get initial access and using crontab-ui to escalate privilege.
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2025
HTB: Puppy
Puppy is a medium Windows machine. This is a grey box machine with a supplied credential. With the credential, we can take advantage of GenericWrite to get access to specific shares. Then, we found a KeePass database file that contains a valid credential for another user account. This user account has GenericAll to another user account that belongs to the Remote Management Users group. There will be a backup file that contains another credential inside the machine. Using the credential, we found a saved credential in the DPAPI that contains a credential for administrative user account.
HTB: Environment
Environment is a Linux machine. The box involves exploiting a Laravel web application vulnerability (CVE-2024-52301) to bypass authentication and upload a shell. It involves finding and decrypting a GPG backup file to obtain credentials, and finally escalating privileges to root by abusing sudo permissions and the BASH_ENV variable.