GCC
OFFSEC - Proving Grounds - BANZAI
·2971 words·14 mins
OFFSEC PG PRACTICE
HYDRA
GOBUSTER
MYSQL
MYSQL UDF
GCC
FTP on port 21 with weak credentials holds web dirirectory for port 8295. Upload PHP shell to gain initial access. MySQL UDF exploit sets SUID on bash and allows us to escalates to root.
OFFSEC - Proving Grounds - CLIPPER
·2475 words·12 mins
OFFSEC PG PRACTICE
CLIPBUCKETV5
LSOF
LDD
GCC
SETENV
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
ClipBucketV5 on port 80 has RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-21624). Gain initial access and reuse credentials for lateral movement, exploit sudo lsof to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and create own .so file to escalate to root.
OFFSEC - Proving Grounds - WORKAHOLIC
·2806 words·14 mins
OSCP
OFFSEC PG PRACTICE
WPPROBE
SQLMAP
HASHCAT
FTP
STRACE
GCC
Use OFFSEC creds or scan Wordpress. Exploit a Wordpress vulnerability (CVE-2024-9796), crack hashes for charlie/ted. FTP as ted and SSH in as charlie. Escalate to root via SUID binary with custom shared object.