🎯 Can you infiltrate TechNova and claim root access?

Challenge Overview

This multi-stage penetration testing challenge simulates a realistic corporate network compromise. You'll need to identify and exploit a chain of vulnerabilities to gain initial access, then leverage privilege escalation techniques to achieve complete system control.

Learning Objectives

• Web application enumeration and reconnaissance
• Information disclosure vulnerability exploitation
• Authentication mechanism analysis and bypass
• Password cracking techniques and tools
• Linux privilege escalation methodologies
• CVE research and exploitation in production environments
• Multi-stage attack chain execution

Challenge Scenario

TechNova Solutions is a fictional enterprise IT company with a public-facing corporate website. You have been tasked with conducting a security assessment. Your objectives are to gain initial access to the system, escalate privileges, and capture both user and root flags to demonstrate the severity of the security issues.

Required Skills

• Web enumeration and directory discovery
• Authentication and credential analysis
• Password cracking tools and techniques
• Linux command-line proficiency
• Privilege escalation techniques
• Security vulnerability research

System Information

The target system is running:

• Ubuntu 24.04 - Linux operating system
• nginx - Web server on port 80
• OpenSSH - SSH service on port 22
• Additional services - Discover through enumeration