Hack The Box: Wingdata Machine Walkthrough – Easy Difficulty
I recently completed the Wingdata machine on Hack The Box! This easy-rated challenge involved exploiting an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability (CVE-2025-47812) in the Wing FTP Server web client to gain initial access as the wingftp user. After enumerating the system and cracking a SHA-256 password hash from a user configuration file using Hashcat, I escalated to the wacky user.
Finally, I leveraged a vulnerable Python backup restoration script by injecting a malicious tarball containing my SSH public key, achieving full root access. A great box for practicing web application exploitation, password cracking, and creative privilege escalation techniques.
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