[HTB] Registry — Write-up

bigb0ss
9 min readApr 6, 2020

Welcome to the HTB Registry write-up! This was a hard-difficulty box and had many fun components to complete it. For the initial shell, I had to inspect the website certificate to identify its subdomain associated with the Docker instance. Then, by abusing the Docker registry, I obtained the first user’s SSH private key to gain shell access. Further enumeration identified bolt.db inside the box which contained password hash for admin user for…

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bigb0ss

OSWE | OSCE | OSCP | CREST | Lead Offensive Security Engineer — All about Penetration Test, Red Team, Cloud Security, Web Application Security