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Mail's avatar
Mail
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4 months ago

Dependency Confusion

I feel as though I have exploited the vulnerability correctly and have gained RCE onto the server but I lack the sufficient privileges to access the token to complete the lab. I have no idea if I mis...
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  • NyePrior's avatar
    NyePrior
    4 months ago

    Hey Mail 👋

    Thanks for sharing your steps. Based on what you've shown, it doesn't look like you've got RCE on the system yet. The commands you're running are on the Desktop instance of the lab (dependency-confusing-desktop). Once you've got RCE, you'll be the root user, so running "whoami" will output root, not iml-user. 

    Hope this helps! 

User's avatar
User
Icon for Bronze II rankBronze II
4 months ago

It looks like you've successfully uploaded the file onto the target server but are trying to control it incorrectly and instead you're controlling you're own system instead of the target's. Try finding the file through the listener set up earlier.