Deadface 2026 Easy Linux

Git Good

Scrubbed creds that only left the working tree. git log the tooling project, check out the initial commit, and pull the service password from the old config.py to become the next user and grab their flag.

#Deadface2026#Linux#Easy#PrivEsc#Forensics
Deadface 2026 Easy Linux

Looking Back

Sloppy operator left a password in shell history. Read ~/.bash_history from the svc-deploy foothold to find creds echoed into chpasswd, su to that user, and read their flag.

#Deadface2026#Linux#Easy#PrivEsc#Forensics
Deadface 2026 Easy Web

Doctor Appointment 1

SQLi auth-bypass in a healthcare login. Send the injection to the API and read the full JSON response - it leaks the username, password and flag.

#Deadface2026#Web#Easy#SQLi#Authentication-Bypass
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Brunner Mifflin (Root)

IT terminal creds + sudo NOPASSWD on /usr/bin/mail. GTFOBins payload spawns a root shell for the flag.

#BrunnerCTF2026#Boot2Root#Easy#Sudo#Mail#GTFOBins
BrunnerCTF 2026 Easy Boot2Root

Brunner Mifflin (User)

IDOR + broken access control in an HR web app. Manipulate a client-side role in localStorage to unlock admin access and grab the flag.

#BrunnerCTF2026#Boot2Root#Easy#IDOR#BrokenAccessControl
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Force Push

A force-push hid a commit, but ORIG_HEAD and the dangling object survived. Recovered the leaked reliquary credentials.

#CyberApocalypse2026#Forensics#Very-Easy#Recover#Git#force-push
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The Compressed Truth

Analyzing NTUSER.DAT hives with RegRipper to trace CROWQUILL's stolen-credential access to vmarr's machine, uncovering KeeFarce credential theft and a staged/exfiltrated archive via 7-Zip artifacts.

#CyberApocalypse2026#Forensics#Very-Easy#Registry#RegRipper#KeeFarce#KeePass
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Massagold

Stored XSS via unescaped EJS output, CSP bypassed using a Google JSONP endpoint, payload delivered to an admin bot that exfiltrated the flag from the admin inbox back to us.

#CyberApocalypse2026#Web#Very-Easy#Stored-XSS#CSP-Bypass
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Gatery

An Elysia backend's signed session cookie fails to verify signatures (CVE-2025-66457), letting a forged session=inside cookie bypass auth.

#CyberApocalypse2026#Web#Very-Easy#CVE-2025-66457#Elysia
HACKTHEBOX CA26 Easy ICS

Line Tap

Fingerprinted a Telnet service running vulnerable GNU InetUtils telnetd, exploited CVE-2026-24061 via USER env injection to bypass auth and grab root shell + flag.

#CyberApocalypse2026#ICS#Easy#CVE-2026-24061#InetUtils
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Baby

Anonymous LDAP enumeration exposes domain users. Password spraying identifies a second account. SeBackupPrivilege is abused to extract ntds.dit, leading to a full domain compromise via Pass-the-Hash.

#Windows#Easy#AD#Password-Spraying#LDAP#ldapsearch#SMB#smbpasswd#WinRM#Evil-WinRM
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Conversor

An unsanitized XSLT parser allows arbitrary file writes for RCE. Credentials are recovered from a SQLite database. A Perl config injection grants a root shell.

#Linux#Easy#FTP#SQLite#XSLT-Injection#Linpeas#Hash-Identifier#Hashcat#needrestart#Perl
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WingData

A null-byte injection CVE-2025-47812. Credentials for a second user are recovered from config files. A symlink and hardlink chaining technique CVE-2025-4517.

#Linux#Easy#Python#FTP#Injection#CVE-2025-47812#CVE-2025-4517#Hash-Identifier#Hashcat