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CVE-2018-7466

cve-2018 | Level: Intermediate  | Total Lab Runs: 0 | Free Lab

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The attacker might not have any user-level access to the web application. However, this does not mean that the application cannot be attacked remotely. Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities could be triggered even by unauthenticated users.

In the exercise below, the attacker is not authenticated to the web application and needs to find a remote code execution attack to execute arbitrary commands on the server.

TestLink is web-based test management and test execution system. It enables quality assurance teams to create and manage their test cases as well as to organize them into test plans. These test plans allow team members to execute test cases and track test results dynamically.

Testlink (< v1.9.17) is vulnerable to a Remote Code Execution documented in CVE-2018-7466.

The following information may be helpful in exploiting the vulnerability:

Database nameapp
Database Admin Userpentester
Database Admin Passwordpassword1

Objective: Your task is to find and exploit this vulnerability.

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All relevant information to solve this lab is available on the CVE website.

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  • Using automated scanners
  • Using brute force attacks
  • Denial of Service attacks
  • Attacking other student machines in challenges where you might achieve a shell on the vulnerable system
  • Attacking the lab infrastructure

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