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hackthebox

Task: Full HackTheBox machine with an XML-to-HTML converter web app and Linux privilege escalation. Solution: Exploited XSLT injection via exsl:document to write a Python reverse shell through a cron job for user access, then used CVE-2024-48990 needrestart PYTHONPATH injection for root.

$ ls tags/ techniques/

rce md5_cracking privilege_escalation source_code_leak xslt_injection exsl_document cron_exploitation cve-2024-48990 needrestart pythonpath_injection

hash_crackingdatabase_extractionxslt_file_writecron_job_abuseshared_library_injectionconstructor_hijacking

Analysis

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$ python3 exploit.py --target 192.168.1.1 --port 8080
[*] Connecting to target...
[+] Shell obtained!

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