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.

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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.

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HackTheBox Easy Linux

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
HackTheBox Easy Linux

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