Broken Authentication - Skills Assessment

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Hello I’ve been stuck on the skill assessment for broken authentication for a couple of days now. I was able to identify the password policy and even found a couple of other users through the message page. However, I’m having trouble narrowing down rockyou.txt to make the wordlist shorter. I used “grep ‘[[:upper:]]’ rockyou.txt | grep ‘[[:lower:]]’ | grep ‘[@#$]’” then used sed to eliminate anything lower than 20 characters. This is where I’m stuck, I can’t find anymore users and I can’t find a valid password for the users I did find. A nudge in the right direction would be so helpful, thank you.

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Me too, i have found some users but my password lists seems not to be working

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I have only found two used with a userenum script, but other threads suggest that 3 exist. Not sure how to find the third one…

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Solved!! The support page gives a huge hint about country codes for usernames

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So I got all the users with country codes but I cannot find a valid password for any within the password restrictions. What did you do to shorten your wordlist?

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The command i used is:

grep -a ‘[1]’ rockyou.txt | grep -a ‘[2]’ | grep -a ‘[0-9]$’ | grep -a ‘[@#$]’ | grep -x ‘.{20}’

  1. [:upper:] ↩︎

  2. [:lower:] ↩︎

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Its '^ [ [ : upper : ] ] ’ and '^ [ [ : lower : ] ] ’ for the parts that is cut out

And grep ’ . \ { 20 \ } ’ for the last part

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@pap Can you give a hint on the country codes for usernames? I tried bruteforcing with examples like: supportAV, support762, adminAV, etc…
Still haven’t found any usernames beyond beyond support and guest though.

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Yes the support page states something about country codes. Use country codes to enum

So example is user.eu for europe country code

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thanks @pap

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You’re welcome

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Thank you! I really need to work on my grep commands I had something completely different. I was able to get a few hits with a script I wrote to bypass the timeout. However, I’ve been stuck on the cookie tampering part. I have the algorithm but I seem to get the same error no matter what role I try.

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Hint:

You need to be logged into the correct account, and also manipulate cookies to have the correct role.

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Hmm I’ll try playing around with that, I only got hits on 6 accounts does that sound about right.