Passage_Lateral_Movement_paul

paul

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Earlier, I was able to learn that CuteNews stores user data in a bunch of serialized PHP objects. I then managed to deserialize those user data and extract a few password hashes. One of the password hashes that I cracked belongs to the paul user.

Here, I will be testing password reuse

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/archive/htb/labs/passage]
└─$ sshpass -p atlanta1 ssh paul@$IP
paul@10.10.10.206: Permission denied (publickey).
 
www-data@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/cdata/users$ su
password: atlanta1
 
paul@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/cdata/users$ whoami
paul
paul@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/cdata/users$ hostname
passage
paul@passage:/var/www/html/CuteNews/cdata/users$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens160: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:50:56:b9:04:69 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.10.10.206/24 brd 10.10.10.255 scope global ens160
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 dead:beef::250:56ff:feb9:469/64 scope global mngtmpaddr dynamic 
       valid_lft 86399sec preferred_lft 14399sec
    inet6 fe80::250:56ff:feb9:469/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

While the paul user was denied for SSH access to the target system, I was able to change to the paul user from the existing session Password reuse confirmed

Lateral Movement made to the paul user