Challenge list
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Compression Maze - Nested Archives
/app/flag.tar.gz is a nested compressed file. Decompress step by step: flag.tar.gz → flag.tar → flag.zip.bz2.gz →…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Breaking Small RSA Keys
Factor a tiny RSA modulus, recover the private exponent, and decrypt a list of ciphertext values. Public key and…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Cryptanalysis - Breaking the Affine Cipher
ciphertext.txt is an English report encrypted with the affine cipher E(x) = (a*x + b) mod 26. Letter case is preserved…
ProgrammingLevel 2★★☆☆☆Regular Expressions - The One-Time Golden Glyph
Extract every KINO-four-digits-four-uppercase glyph from data.txt, identify the one occurring once, and submit it to…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Regex Master - Log File Analysis
The file /app/access.log contains thousands of access log entries. Extract all entries where the IP address starts…
General SkillsLevel 2★★☆☆☆Environment Variable Master - PATH Hijacking
There is a hidden command "getflag" in /app/secret_bin directory. However, this directory is not in PATH, so you…
General SkillsLevel 3★★★☆☆Docker Forensics - Container Investigation
With no Docker daemon available, investigate the metadata of the image `registry.internal/kinoco-billing-api:2.4.1`:…
General SkillsLevel 3★★★☆☆Find the Deleted API Key in Git History
/app/repo is a Git repository. A developer accidentally committed an API_KEY and removed it in a later commit. Inspect…
LinuxLevel 3★★★☆☆Linux-Capabilities. Privilege Escalation Beyond SUID
A specific binary on this system has Linux capabilities assigned to it. Investigate a privilege escalation technique…
LinuxLevel 3★★★☆☆Linux-SUID Exploit. Escalating Privileges via the find Binary
A copy of the find command with the SUID bit set exists on this system. Use a well-known GTFOBins technique to obtain…
LinuxLevel 3★★★☆☆Linux-Proc Memory. Peeking at a Process's Environment
A daemon process runs continuously in the background, with the flag set as one of its environment variables.…
LinuxLevel 3★★★☆☆Linux-Strace. Tracing System Calls to Expose a File
A binary that leaves nothing in standard output or on disk is provided. It reads a key from a hidden file,…
LinuxLevel 3★★★☆☆Linux-Race Condition. Exploiting a TOCTOU Gap for Root Files
A cleanup script that root runs periodically has a gap (TOCTOU) between checking and acting on a file. Try exploiting…
General SkillsLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - REST API Data Collection
A paginated local API runs in the container at `http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/records?page=N`. Walk every page until…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - SQLite Database Analysis
Examine data.db (SQLite: users / orders / audit_log), created at every start. Aggregate orders per user_id with…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - Custom Cipher Decryption
cipher.txt holds the flag encrypted with a custom cipher (hex). Encryption applies per byte: add (key), xor…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Python Automation - Encrypted ZIP Password Cracking
A new /challenge/secret.zip is created at every start. It contains flag.txt and readme.txt, encrypted with ZipCrypto.…
General SkillsLevel 3★★★☆☆SQL Query Master - Complex Joins
The SQLite database `/challenge/company.db` has 3 tables: - employees (id, name, department_id, salary, email, note) -…
Web SecurityLevel 3★★★☆☆Web-21. Blind Injection in Secure User Search
This user search app only reports whether a username exists, without showing direct query results. Investigate whether…
Web SecurityLevel 3★★★☆☆Web-22. CSP Bypass on the Secure Comment Board
This comment board is protected by a Content Security Policy restricting script execution to the site itself and a…
Web SecurityLevel 3★★★☆☆Web-23. Type Juggling in the Secure Authentication System
This login portal supports form login, a JSON API login, and a verification-code check. The admin account's real…
Web SecurityLevel 3★★★☆☆Web-24. Exploiting a Race Condition in Secure Bank
Secure Bank lets users spend a coin balance on shop prizes. If the balance check and the deduction happen as two…
Web SecurityLevel 3★★★☆☆Web-25. SSTI in the Greeting Card Generator
This greeting card generator is built with Flask/Jinja2 and renders the user's message directly through the template…
ProgrammingLevel 3★★★☆☆Algorithms - BFS Shortest Path Through a Maze
Use BFS to find the shortest path from S to E in data.txt, then submit the UDLR move sequence to challenge.py. A…