It keeps telling me “Failed to spawn instance” although I was able to use it yesterday
Edit: Apparently only the EU Arena is struggling, works with US right now
Rooted. At first I was a little frustrated for the initial part, but when you take a close look at it you’ll see that there is something wrong. The root part is very simple.
Rooted, took me like 45 minutes to get user and 10 minutes for root.
I think I were lucky, because I heard about the user flaw a few Months ago - which definitely pointed me to the right direction.
User part of this machine was a bit sketchy in my opinion, and the whole machine would have been far better suited for the “Challenges” category. Hard to be on the lookout for something that was never really quite there in the first place.
Root part was incredibly simple, but gave me a chance to write my own revshell script for that specific platform that is way more stable than what I pulled from the web before.
@WebFan said:
Is it cheating when I only read the root flag as user?
I’m not sure if there are any official guidelines for this, but I think that’s normally fair game. In some machines it’s trickier to get proper root access than to just read the flag, but in this one I’d say it’s straight forward. Maybe try a different…“option” for privesc?
was not a great box, but it’s done. The first steps aren’t obvious, and it’s quite strange that informations are so hard to find… Root step is a classic one. Feel free to ask hints if needed : I’ll try to be “spoilfree”
Rooted: Didn’t find this too enjoyable. Enough clues here already to complete.
User: Google-fu once you find the service version you need to know , as results are few.The chinese clue is all you need.
ROOT: Very easy the box name is big clue.
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