Challenge list
Web-17. Path Traversal in FileShare
FileShare lets users list and download files from a shared folder. Check whether the filename parameter passed to the…
Web-18. XXE Attack via a Contact Form
This contact form serializes its input as XML and sends it to the server, which parses it and echoes the result.…
Web-19. CSRF Transfer in a Banking App
This banking app lets a logged-in user transfer money. Check whether CSRF protections exist by seeing if a separate…
Web-20. SSRF via the URL Fetcher
This URL Fetcher service retrieves and displays the content of any URL a user provides. Check whether it can be…
Finding Hash Collisions
MD5 collisions are practical. Hashes with broken collision resistance must not be used for security-sensitive…
Hash Length Extension Attack
Simple signatures such as hash(secret || message) can be vulnerable to length extension attacks with Merkle-Damgard…
Padding Oracle Basics
Padding oracle attacks use error differences as a plaintext recovery signal. This introductory task decodes leaked…
Rainbow Table Attack
Unsalted fast password hashes can often be reversed with precomputed lookup databases. Reverse the given MD5 hash. MD5…
One-Time Pad Key Reuse Attack
A one-time pad is safe only when the key is used once. Reusing the key lets known plaintext recover other plaintexts.…
Predictable Randomness
Pseudo-random output with a fixed seed is reproducible and must not be used for cryptographic secrets. Flag generation…
Breaking Small RSA Keys
Factor a tiny RSA modulus, recover the private exponent, and decrypt a list of ciphertext values. Public key and…
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…