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9 posts tagged with "Offsec"

OffSec Proving Grounds and related lab walkthroughs

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OffSec Proving Grounds Osaka — FTP Buffer Overflow & psgetsys

James
AOV Security

In this Art of Vector walkthrough, we take OffSec Proving Grounds Osaka from a sparse Windows port map to full administrator desktop access by chaining a custom FTP stack buffer overflow (WinDbg + Mona, ASLR leak, ROP, and VirtualProtect), then escalating with SeDebugPrivilege and psgetsys parent-process token theft to create a local admin account for RDP.

OffSec Proving Grounds Symbolic — Symlink to Admin SSH

James
AOV Security

In this Art of Vector walkthrough, we take OffSec Proving Grounds Symbolic from a two-port Windows web host to Administrator over SSH by recovering a leaked private key from a generated PDF, then chaining an Object Manager symbolic link with James Forshaw's CreateSymlink.exe to steal the administrator's id_rsa. We also note SeTcbPrivilege and the textbook tcb.exe path — documented for context, but not what worked in this run.

OffSec Proving Grounds SPX — php-spx CVE-2024-42007

James
AOV Security

In this Art of Vector walkthrough, we take OffSec Proving Grounds SPX from a quiet two-port scan to full root by chaining an exposed phpinfo leak, CVE-2024-42007 in php-spx, Tiny File Manager credential recovery, a PHP web shell, password reuse into profiler, and finally a sudo-allowed make install that evaluates attacker-controlled Makefile shell expansion as root.