[HTB] SwagShop — Write-up

bigb0ss
8 min readSep 30, 2019

Welcome to the hackthebox write-up for SwagShop! This box was pretty interesting, and, for the fact that this was a prototype website for the actual hackthebox swag shop, it made more fun to play it. It was labeled as “Easy” box since you can get an initial shell/code execution by utilizing a public exploit. For a privilege escalation, it was also pretty straightforward that you only need to leverage a misconfigured sudo privilege. Let’s get…

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bigb0ss

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