Summary

  • The box begins with a Nmap scan of the network to find any open ports and services.
  • A total of 22/tcp and 8080/tcp are available.
  • A peak at the page shows a cat sticker shop with possible XSS.
  • Using this, we craft a simple payload to send a request to the target machine.
  • The response gives us a GET request back to our machine.
  • We take this and modify it to send a request for the flag.txt file.
  • With this, we get a response with the flag.

By Reju Kole

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