In this post, I would like to share a walkthrough of the PC Machine from Hack the Box
This room will be considered an Easy machine on Hack the Box
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What will you gain from the PC machine?
For the user flag, you will need to abuse port 50051 which is used by the gRPC service with the SQL Injection. The purpose of the attack is to dump the database, especially the credentials
As for the root flag, you need to abuse the pyLoad vulnerability which we can find in CVE-2023-0297
Information Gathering on PC Machine
Once we have started the VPN connection which requires a download from Hackthebox, we can start the information gathering on the machine by executing the command nmap -sC -sV -p- <IP Address> -PN
┌─[darknite@parrot]─[~/Document/htb/PC]
└──╼ $nmap -sC -sV 10.10.11.214 -oA initial -Pn
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-05-21 21:53 EDT
Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.214
Host is up (0.18s latency).
Not shown: 999 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.7 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 91:bf:44:ed:ea:1e:32:24:30:1f:53:2c:ea:71:e5:ef (RSA)
| 256 84:86:a6:e2:04:ab:df:f7:1d:45:6c:cf:39:58:09:de (ECDSA)
|_ 256 1a:a8:95:72:51:5e:8e:3c:f1:80:f5:42:fd:0a:28:1c (ED25519)
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: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 19.98 seconds
┌─[darknite@parrot]─[~/Document/htb/PC]The Nmap result only shows port 22 which the SSH service open
─[darknite@parrot]─[~/Document/htb/PC]
└──╼ $nmap -sC -sV -p- 10.10.11.214 -oA initial -Pn
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-05-21 21:54 EDT
Stats: 0:05:17 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Connect Scan
Connect Scan Timing: About 85.22% done; ETC: 22:00 (0:00:55 remaining)
Nmap scan report for 10.10.11.214
Host is up (0.18s latency).
Not shown: 65533 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.7 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 3072 91:bf:44:ed:ea:1e:32:24:30:1f:53:2c:ea:71:e5:ef (RSA)
| 256 84:86:a6:e2:04:ab:df:f7:1d:45:6c:cf:39:58:09:de (ECDSA)
|_ 256 1a:a8:95:72:51:5e:8e:3c:f1:80:f5:42:fd:0a:28:1c (ED25519)
50051/tcp open unknown
1 service unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprint at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
SF-Port50051-TCP:V=7.92%I=7%D=5/21%Time=646ACCD0%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu%r(N
SF:ULL,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x0
SF:6\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(Generic
SF:Lines,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\
SF:x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(GetRe
SF:quest,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\
SF:x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(HTTPO
SF:ptions,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0
SF:\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(RTSP
SF:Request,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\
SF:0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(RPC
SF:Check,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\
SF:x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(DNSVe
SF:rsionBindReqTCP,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\
SF:xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0
SF:")%r(DNSStatusRequestTCP,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0
SF:\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\
SF:0\0\?\0\0")%r(Help,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x05\0
SF:\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\
SF:0\0")%r(SSLSessionReq,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff\xff\0\x0
SF:5\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\0\0\0\0\0
SF:\?\0\0")%r(TerminalServerCookie,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xf
SF:f\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0
SF:\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(TLSSessionReq,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?
SF:\xff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x0
SF:8\0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(Kerberos,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\x
SF:ff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\
SF:0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(SMBProgNeg,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\x
SF:ff\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\
SF:0\0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0")%r(X11Probe,2E,"\0\0\x18\x04\0\0\0\0\0\0\x04\0\?\xff
SF:\xff\0\x05\0\?\xff\xff\0\x06\0\0\x20\0\xfe\x03\0\0\0\x01\0\0\x04\x08\0\
SF:0\0\0\0\0\?\0\0");
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: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 401.63 seconds
┌─[darknite@parrot]─[~/Document/htb/PC]
└──╼ $
As a result, let’s scan with the command of full scan
For those who are not familiar with port 50051 including me, let’s do some research and find that the port is been used to access or connect to the container from the host.
Enumerate the grpcurl and grpcui
We should download the script over here by using the go install command
If the script can be found within /go/bin/ directory and moved to our PC directory
Therefore, we can list the application on the server by running the command above.
Sadly, we are required to enter the token key for SimpleApp.getInfo
For the grpcui command, we can open a website that looks like a proxy server
A website suddenly appears on the browser without entering the URL on the browser.
My first thought when noticing the username and password is a default credential such as admin:admin
We should inspect the packet via burpsuite
The response will be something as shown above.
The output on a browser will look something like as above.
Sqlmap enumeration
Sadly, nothing can be found when enumeration using sqlmap
The screenshot above shows that the JSON looks like something as above.
At last, we have managed to obtain the username and password
We can read the user flag by typing the “cat user.txt” command
Escalate to Root Privileges Access
However, we have managed to see that port 8000 is listening on the server
Therefore, let’s start our port forwarding
On the website interface, we are provided with pyload
Let’s do some research on the Pyload vulnerability
We can curl the application from inside the server.
The /bin/bash will be assigned as SUID binary
We can read the root flag by the “cat /root/root.txt” command
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