Our exercises

Ruby 2.x Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain

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This exercise covers how to get code execution by using a Ruby Universal Gadget when an attacker controls the data passed to Marshal.load()

CVE-2018-10933: LibSSH auth bypass

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Android 03

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This exercise will guide through the process of extracting simple information from an APK

From SQL injection to Shell III

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This exercise covers how to gain access to an administration interface using SQL injection followed by how to get command execution using ImageTragick

IDOR to Shell

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This exercise covers how to get code execution by chaining vulnerabilities in a Ruby-on-Rails application

Android 01

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This exercise will guide through the process of extracting simple information from an APK

Introduction to CSP

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This exercise details the exploitation of a XSS in a simple web application that uses Content Security Policy

CVE-2018-11235: Git Submodule RCE

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This exercise details the exploitation of a vulnerability in Git Sub module that can be used to get command execution

Git Information Leak

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This exercise details how to retrieve information from an exposed .git directory on a web server

JWT VII

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a website using JWT for session without verifying the signature

CVE-2016-5386: HTTPoxy

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This exercise covers the exploitation of HTTPoxy against an old version of Golang

CBC-MAC II

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an application using CBC-MAC when an attacker has control over the IV

CVE-2018-6574: go get RCE

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This exercise covers a remote command execution in Golang's go get command.

JWT V

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a trivial secret used to sign JWT tokens.

CVE-2018-0114

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This exercise details the exploitation of a vulnerability in Cisco's node-jose, a JavaScript library created to manage JWT

JWT IV

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a vulnerability similar to the recent CVE-2017-17405 impacting Ruby Net::FTP

CBC-MAC

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This exercise covers the exploitation of signature of non-fixed size messages with CBC-MAC

JWT III

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an issue in the usage of JWT token

Introduction to code review

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This exercise covers the different ways to perform code review. It also contains a simple application to review to help you get started.

S2-052

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This exercise covers the exploitation of the Struts S2-052 vulnerability

SAML: Introduction

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a signature stripping vulnerability in SAML

Cipher block chaining

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This exercise details how to tamper with data encrypted using CBC

Struts s2-045

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This exercise covers a Remote Code Execution in Struts 2.

CVE-2016-2098

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This exercise covers a remote code execution vulnerability in Ruby-on-Rails when using render on user-supplied data

CVE-2014-4511: Gitlist RCE

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This exercise explains how you can exploit a vulnerability published in 2014 in Gitlist.

ECDSA

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a weakness in the usage of ECDSA

Werkzeug DEBUG

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This challenge was written for Ruxcon CTF 2015 and cover the Debug mode of Werkzeug/Flask

Padding Oracle

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This exercise covers an attack against CBC mode. This attack can be used to decrypt data and re-encrypt arbitrary data

Unickle

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This challenge was written for Ruxcon CTF 2015. It's an SQL injection mixed with a remote code execution.

CVE-2015-3224

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This exercise is a challenge written for Nullcon CTF in 2015

Luhn

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This challenge was written for Ruxcon CTF 2015. It's an SQL injection with a twist

CVE-2013-0156

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a code execution in Ruby-on-Rails using XML and YAML.

CVE-2016-0792

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an Xstream vulnerability in Jenkins

ObjectInputStream

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a call to readObject in a Spring application

XMLDecoder

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an application using XMLDecoder

Man-in-the-Middle V

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This exercise covers how to intercept an HTTPs connection..

Man-in-the-Middle IV

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This exercise covers how to intercept an HTTPs connection..

Man-in-the-Middle III

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This exercise covers how to intercept an HTTPs connection with hostname verification.

Man-in-the-Middle II

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This exercise covers how to intercept an HTTPs connection.

Man-in-the-Middle

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This exercise covers how to intercept an HTTP connection.

Struts devMode

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This exercise covers how to get code execution when a Struts application is running in devMode

JSON Web Token

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a signature weakness in a JWT library.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

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This exercise covers Cross-Origin Resource Sharing and how it can be used to bypass CSRF protection if misconfigured.

API to Shell

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This exercise covers the exploitation of PHP type confusion to bypass a signature and the exploitation of unserialize.

Pickle Code Execution

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This exercise covers the exploitation of Python's pickle when used to deserialize untrusted data

Play XML Entities

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a XML entities in the Play framework.

CVE-2014-6271/Shellshock

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a Bash vulnerability through a CGI.

Play Session Injection

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This exercise covers the exploitation of a session injection in the Play framework. This issue can be used to tamper with the content of the session while bypassing the signing mechanism

CVE-2007-1860: mod_jk double-decoding

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This exercise covers the exploitation of CVE-2007-1860. This vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to unaccessible pages using crafted requests. This is a common trick that a lot of testers miss.

XSS and MySQL FILE

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This exercise explains how you can use a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability to get access to an administrator's cookies. Then how you can use his/her session to gain access to the administration to find a SQL injection and gain code execution using it.

Electronic Code Book

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This exercise explains how you can tamper with an encrypted cookies to access another user's account.

Web for Pentester II

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This exercise is a set of the most common web vulnerabilities.

From SQL Injection to Shell II

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This exercise explains how you can, from a blind SQL injection, gain access to the administration console. Then once in the administration console, how you can run commands on the system.

CVE-2012-6081: MoinMoin code execution

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This exercise explains how you can exploit CVE-2012-6081 to gain code execution. This vulnerability was exploited to compromise Debian's wiki and Python documentation website

Web for Pentester

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This exercise is a set of the most common web vulnerabilities.

Axis2 Web service and Tomcat Manager

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This exercice explains the interactions between Tomcat and Apache, then it will show you how to call and attack an Axis2 Web service. Using information retrieved from this attack, you will be able to gain access to the Tomcat Manager and deploy a WebShell to gain commands execution.

CVE-2008-1930: Wordpress 2.5 Cookie Integrity Protection Vulnerability

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This exercise explains how you can exploit CVE-2008-1930 to gain access to the administration interface of a Wordpress installation.

From SQL Injection to Shell: PostgreSQL edition

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This exercise explains how you can from a SQL injection gain access to the administration console. Then in the administration console, how you can run commands on the system.

Rack Cookies and Commands injection

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After a short brute force introduction, this exercise explains the tampering of rack cookie and how you can even manage to modify a signed cookie (if the secret is trivial). Using this issue, you will be able to escalate your privileges and gain commands execution.

Linux Host Review

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This exercise explains how to perform a Linux host review, what and how you can check the configuration of a Linux server to ensure it is securely configured. The reviewed system is a traditional Linux-Apache-Mysql-PHP (LAMP) server used to host a blog.

CVE-2012-2661: ActiveRecord SQL injection

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This exercise explains how you can exploit CVE-2012-2661 to retrieve information from a database

CVE-2012-1823: PHP CGI

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This exercise explains how you can exploit CVE-2012-1823 to retrieve the source code of an application and gain code execution.

PHP Include And Post Exploitation

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This exercise describes the exploitation of a local file include with limited access. Once code execution is gained, you will see some post exploitation tricks.

From SQL Injection to Shell

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This exercise explains how you can, from a SQL injection, gain access to the administration console, then in the administration console, how you can run commands on the system.

CVE-2016-10033: PHPMailer RCE

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This exercise covers a remote code execution vulnerability in PHPMailer

JSON Web Token II

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an issue with some implementations of JWT

JWT VI

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This exercise covers the exploitation of an injection in the kid element of a JWT. This injection can be used to bypass the signature mechanism

Git Information Leak II

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This exercise details how to retrieve information from an exposed .git directory on a web server. This time, the directly listing is disabled

Android 02

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This exercise will guide through the process of extracting data from a simple database used by an Android app

Android 04

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This exercise will guide through the process of reversing simple Android code