3 Sep 2016

Exploit-Exercises Nebula level04

wargames  

This level requires you to read the token file, but the code restricts the files that can be read. Find a way to bypass it :)

To do this level, log in as the level04 account with the password level04. Files for this level can be found in /home/flag04.

level4.c

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
{
  char buf[1024];
  int fd, rc;

  if(argc == 1) {
      printf("%s [file to read]\n", argv[0]);
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

  if(strstr(argv[1], "token") != NULL) {
      printf("You may not access '%s'\n", argv[1]);
      exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

  fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
  if(fd == -1) {
      err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Unable to open %s", argv[1]);
  }

  rc = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));

  if(rc == -1) {
      err(EXIT_FAILURE, "Unable to read fd %d", fd);
  }

  write(1, buf, rc);
}

We want to pass the file called token to the script but we don’t have read permission on the file. However, we can use symbolic link to trick the script. Please be patient as I type in the password :)