HTB: Joker

Rooting Joker had three steps. The first was using TFTP to get the Squid Proxy config and creds that allowed access to a webserver listening on localhost that provided a Python console. To turn that into a shell, I’ll have to enumerate the firewall and find that I can use UDP. I’ll show two ways to abuse a sudo rule to make the second step. I can take advantage of the sudoedit_follow flag, or just abuse the wildcards in the rule. The final pivot to root exploits a cron running creating tar archives, and I’ll show three different ways to abuse it.