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Mail
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11 months ago
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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
    11 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! 

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TillyCorless
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11 months ago

Hi Mail did any of these replies help to solve your confusion? 

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