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NDH CTF 2015 - Facesec Writeup

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NDH 2015 Facesec Writeup
Point = 100
Category = Web
Description :

“Hello there,

We are looking for a developer or security consultant to secure our filebox system. We stumbled upon your LinkedIn profile and it seems like you would be a perfect candidate for this job. Could you please send us your CV and Motivation letter?
Thanks,

http://facesec.challs.nuitduhack.com/

after you open the link , you can see a login/register system.so sign up and login to my account

after that you seen a upload form with this description :

You can upload a .txt file if you specify the type of the content (cv or motivation letter). If you want, you can upload a tar archive which contains two files (cv.txt and motiv.txt). The content will be update in your profil we can examine your instance.

so try to upload your file , contents of 2 texts go to 2 field in your profile name as CV and Motivation Letter

if you try to upload file with extension you got an error

you can .tar file.
according to this link you can execute command with tar file :

Tar file command execution
so we try to Symlink /etc/passwd to CV.txt

when upload complete and we go to the profile link we can see this :

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:/bin/sh sshd:x:101:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin facesec:x:1000:1000:W00tSymL1nkAttackStillW0rksIn2k15:/home/facesec:/bin/sh 

Bingo :D

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