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Sense

This is my write-up for the machine Sense on Hack The Box located at: https://app.hackthebox.com/machines/Sense.

nmap scan: nmap -T4 -A -v -Pn 10.10.10.60 -oN sense.nmap

PORT    STATE SERVICE  VERSION
80/tcp  open  http     lighttpd 1.4.35
|_http-server-header: lighttpd/1.4.35
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to https://10.10.10.60/
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
443/tcp open  ssl/http lighttpd 1.4.35
| http-methods: 
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-favicon: Unknown favicon MD5: 082559A7867CF27ACAB7E9867A8B320F
|_ssl-date: TLS randomness does not represent time
|_http-title: Login
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=Common Name (eg, YOUR name)/organizationName=CompanyName/stateOrProvinceName=Somewhere/countryName=US
| Issuer: commonName=Common Name (eg, YOUR name)/organizationName=CompanyName/stateOrProvinceName=Somewhere/countryName=US
| Public Key type: rsa
| Public Key bits: 1024
| Signature Algorithm: sha256WithRSAEncryption
| Not valid before: 2017-10-14T19:21:35
| Not valid after:  2023-04-06T19:21:35
| MD5:   65f8 b00f 57d2 3468 2c52 0f44 8110 c622
|_SHA-1: 4f7c 9a75 cb7f 70d3 8087 08cb 8c27 20dc 05f1 bb02
|_http-server-header: lighttpd/1.4.35

There are two ports open, on port 80, we see the following:

It seems that pfSense is running on the system. I tried the default credentials of admin:pfsense, but that did not work out. I ran a dirsearch command (dirsearch -u https://10.10.10.60/) to see what I was able to get access to and found this:

There still seems to be one vulnerability in place. I ran different searches in the directory to try to find something else, but came up short. When I viewed the official write-up to see what I missed, apparently running the lowercase medium word-list in dirbusters word-list directory would have shown me an (IP)/system-users.txt file:

The company defaults for pfSense was pfsense. The credentials rohit:pfsense got me into the system:

Searching for "pfsense" on metasploit showed me a couple of results for exploits. I chose one and then fixed the options to work for this box:

I then had a reverse shell:

I was then able to find the user.txt flag in rohit's home directory:

I was then able to get the root flag as well: