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Powergrid Challenge

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Task: Patch a CRLF injection vulnerability in a flat-file user database that allows privilege escalation. Solution: Identify that the addUser() function lacks input validation on username, allowing pipe and newline injection to create admin entries in the pipe-delimited users.txt, then add isValidUsername() validation and deploy the fix via Socket.IO file save API.

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privilege_escalationcrlf_injectioncode_patchingwebsocket_exploitation

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