Today, I will demonstrate new skills which I gained: Identifying vulnerabilities by using the NSE; Exploiting SMB using Metasploit. Let's give a brief intro about the new machine. Legacy is a retired machine at the beginner level that shows SMB’s possible security threats in Windows OS. First of all, we…

Hi All, this is my first blog entry which I decided to share my written walkthroughs related to retired machines on HTB. Frankly speaking, I am in the learning process and end of my development, I would like to look at my progress for checking what I learnt. …

In January 2019, researchers discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in default installations of Ubuntu Linux. This was due to a bug in the snapd API, a default service. Any local user could exploit this vulnerability to obtain immediate root access to the system (Linux Privilege Escalation via snapd, n.d.). In…

In January 2019, researchers discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in default installations of Ubuntu Linux. This was due to a bug in the snapd API, a default service. Any local user could exploit this vulnerability to obtain immediate root access to the system (Linux Privilege Escalation via snapd, n.d.). In…