BlakSec

Objective

Remotely attack the VM and find all 4 flags eventually leading you to full root access.

Source: [VulnHub.com]

Status: [Work in progress]

Methodology

Discovery

root@kali:~# nmap -O -sT -sV -p- -T5 192.168.56.105

Starting Nmap 7.60 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2018-03-26 05:21 EDT
mass_dns: warning: Unable to determine any DNS servers. Reverse DNS is disabled. Try using --system-dns or specify valid servers with --dns-servers
Stats: 0:00:10 elapsed; 0 hosts completed (1 up), 1 undergoing Service Scan
Service scan Timing: About 66.67% done; ETC: 05:21 (0:00:03 remaining)
Nmap scan report for 192.168.56.105
Host is up (0.00068s latency).
Not shown: 65532 closed ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
21/tcp open  ftp     vsftpd 3.0.2
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 6.6.1p1 Ubuntu 2ubuntu2.8 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
80/tcp open  http    Apache httpd 2.4.7 ((Ubuntu))
MAC Address: 08:00:27:FF:CF:9E (Oracle VirtualBox virtual NIC)
Device type: general purpose
Running: Linux 3.X|4.X
OS CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:3 cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:4
OS details: Linux 3.2 - 4.8
Network Distance: 1 hop
Service Info: OSs: Unix, Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

OS and Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 11.92 seconds

Appendix A: Vulnerability Detail and Mitigation

Unpatched Software Components

Rating	High
Description	xxxxxx
Impact	xxxxx
Remediation	xxxxx

Relaxed sudo Roles

Rating	High
Description	xxxxxx
Impact	xxxxx
Remediation	xxxxx

Default Weak Passwords

Rating	High
Description	xxxxxx
Impact	xxxxx
Remediation	xxxxx

Relaxed Filesystem Permissions

Rating	High
Description	Unix file permissions for /etc/shadow are incorrect.
Impact	Allow any user with a shell to access this file and extract password hashes which can be further passed to a password cracking utility to extract user credentials.
Remediation	Set unix file permissions for /etc/shadow to "600" and change ownership to root:root