Wargames

OverTheWire Natas Level 1

In continuing with the Natas wargame from OverTheWire, I tried my hand at level 1. It too was pretty easy. It was just like the level 0, except that right-clicking was disabled via javascript.

You start out by being told that the password can be found on the page that you’re on, just like the …

OverTheWire Natas Level 0

I recently read that OverTheWire had released a new wargame, so I decided to play for fun.

The first level is extremely easy. You are presented with a page that tells you that you are able to find the password on this page.

If you then view the source, you can see the password to the next level …

Exploit Exercises - …

It’s been a while since I last did a write-up about Exploit Exercises. I’m starting to look back at it now, since I have some more free time again. I’ve now, as I’m sure you can guess by the title of this post, solved level 01.

So this level is very similar to the first, …

Exploit Exercises - …

I was very excited to see the announcement on twitter, that Fusion was going to be released, even if it’s just the first 10 levels. I was a bit bummed, as I didn’t think I’d get to work on it much, until I complete PWB, but I managed to find a little time to at least start it. I …

Kioptrix 4

I know there are a few different methods to the new Kioptrix 4 boot2root. Unfortunately, I could not find the remote root exploit that is mentioned, but my method used several tools, and privilege escalation.

Tools used:

To start out, I had to find the machine on the …

Exploit Exercises - …

The last in the Net series of Protostar is Net 3. It was of course the most difficult of all of them. However, it still wasn’t too bad.

First, we’re given the following code:

#include "../common/common.c"

#define NAME "net3"
#define UID 996
#define GID 996
#define …