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Mail's avatar
Mail
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10 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
    10 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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steven
Icon for Silver II rankSilver II
9 months ago

so solving this lab is quite straight forward by just copy pasting the instructions.the setup.py only needs to by modified on 3 places (ip, name, version) and then build it and upload it. so far so good. once you get a shell "whoami" should show you root. just tried it and it just works like this