Challenge list
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-11. SQL Injection into the Employee Portal
KinoGadget's internal "Employee Access Portal" runs on a legacy authentication system. The lead developer is rumored…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-12. Reflected XSS in BlogSearch
BlogSearch is a simple search engine for blog articles. The search query is embedded into the results page as-is…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-13. Bypassing File Upload Checks in ImageVault
ImageVault is an image hosting service that accepts JPG, PNG, and GIF uploads. If its validation only checks the end…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-14. Command Injection in a Network Diagnostic Tool
This app is a diagnostic tool that runs ping against a host you supply. If the host input is passed straight into a…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-15. IDOR in the UserProfile Service
The UserProfile Service exposes an API that returns profile information for a given user ID. Check whether the service…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆Web-16. Weak JWT Secret in the CHIMERA Research Lab
Clues found after breaching the employee portal point to an isolated research lab system codenamed CHIMERA. It…
Web SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆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 SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆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 SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆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 SecurityLevel 2★★☆☆☆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…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Finding Hash Collisions
MD5 collisions are practical. Hashes with broken collision resistance must not be used for security-sensitive…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Hash Length Extension Attack
Simple signatures such as hash(secret || message) can be vulnerable to length extension attacks with Merkle-Damgard…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Padding Oracle Basics
Padding oracle attacks use error differences as a plaintext recovery signal. This introductory task decodes leaked…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Rainbow Table Attack
Unsalted fast password hashes can often be reversed with precomputed lookup databases. Reverse the given MD5 hash. MD5…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆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.…
CryptographyLevel 2★★☆☆☆Predictable Randomness
Pseudo-random output with a fixed seed is reproducible and must not be used for cryptographic secrets. Flag generation…
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…
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…
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…