Challenge list
Web-26. Prototype Pollution in User Profile Manager
In this Node.js/Express app, a logged-in user can update their own profile. Check whether the recursive merge function…
Web-27. GraphQL Introspection Leak
This GraphQL API exposes a schema of User objects with introspection enabled. Investigate whether undocumented queries…
Web-28. Hijacking an OAuth Authorization Code
This OAuth 2.0 authorization provider offers a login flow, but its redirect_uri validation may be weak. Investigate…
Web-29. NoSQL Injection in a MongoDB Login Form
This login portal is backed by MongoDB and builds its query directly from raw JSON username/password input.…
Web-30. Insecure Deserialization in KinoVault
A legacy backup system codenamed KinoVault reportedly serializes user session objects with Python's pickle module and…
Custom Tool Development - Web Directory Scanner
Analyze the locally generated artifacts/scanner/directory-report.ndjson instead of scanning a live website. The…
Network Tunneling - SSH Port Forwarding
Practice SSH local port forwarding inside one container. SSH listens on 127.0.0.1:22 and the internal service uses…
Network Analysis - Rebuilding Chunked gzip HTTP from TCP
capture.pcap records two HTTP exchanges over one TCP connection. The server's segments are reordered and some are…
Network Analysis - TCP Retransmission Covert Channel
capture.pcap contains TCP retransmissions with duplicate sequence numbers. Extract retransmissions whose payload…
Encrypted Communication - GPG Public Key Cryptography
Practice GnuPG decryption. Import every private key under `/challenge/keys/` and decrypt each ciphertext under…
Cryptanalysis - DSA Nonce Reuse Key Recovery
/challenge/signatures.json, created with fresh keys at every start, holds the DSA public parameters (p of 1024 bits, q…
Cryptanalysis - Wiener's Attack on RSA
An embedded-device team made the RSA private exponent d very small to speed up decryption. The public exponent e in…
Cryptanalysis - Recovering an LCG's Hidden Parameters
A service generated both session tokens and an encryption keystream from a linear congruential generator x_{k+1} =…
Vulnerability Scanning - Advanced Nmap NSE
The results of running `nmap -sV -sC --script vuln` against the internal subnet `10.66.13.0/24` are in…
Static Analysis - Code Vulnerability Scanning
The Python source of an internal notes app is in `/challenge/src/`. The nine lines flagged by an earlier…
APT Simulation - Full Breach Scenario
This is not an attack exercise but a blue-team task of reading the logs of an incident that already happened. From the…
Bug Bounty Practice - Vulnerability Discovery Master
Analyze the fixed artifacts/bug-bounty/triage-report.json instead of testing a live application. A chained report has…
Linux-eBPF Rootkit. Unmasking a Hidden Process
This challenge safely recreates eBPF-rootkit investigation as offline evidence analysis. Without loading eBPF, tell…
Linux-Kernel Exploit. Rewriting a Read-Only File with Dirty COW
This challenge models mmap, MAP_PRIVATE, and madvise—the ingredients used by Dirty COW (CVE-2016-5195)—as a safe,…
Red Teaming - Custom C2 Framework
No C2 server, agent, socket communication, or command execution is started. Analyze the local…
Anti-Forensics - Evidence Elimination
After the intrusion the attacker covered their tracks: they cut a time window out of `/challenge/auth_syslog.log` (the…
Custom Malware - Stealth Techniques
No executable malware, injection, or evasion capability is included. Analyze the inert configuration sample…
Cloud Pentesting - AWS Multi-Stage Attack
Do not use AWS credentials, a metadata endpoint, or Lambda. Analyze the local artifacts/aws/cloudtrail-chain.jsonl…
Container Escape - Kubernetes Privilege Escalation
Do not use a Kubernetes API, host mount, privileged container, or escape. Read the static…