Radia Perlman

Description

Radia Joy Perlman (/ˈreɪdiə/;[1] born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the internet. She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, thus earning her nickname "Mother of the Internet". Her innovations have made a huge impact on how networks self-organize and move data. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization: for example, enabling today's link-state routing protocols, to be more robust, scalable, and easy to manage. - Wikipedia Entry

Chal: We thought we'd build a webapp to help the Mother of the Internet capture the flag.

Challenge URL

URL

Solution

  • This is a Command Injection challenge.

  • It is a simple DNS querying webapp which runs nslookup and gives us the result

  • On querying cyberheroines.ctfd.io we get this

  • We can try running multiple commands using ;.

  • Listing files using ls, we find a flag.txt file

  • Viewing the file using cat, head, tail, more, less is not possible as they are filtered.

  • We can use strings to view the contents of the file.

    /dns?ip=cyberheroines.ctfd.io;strings flag.txt

VULNERABILITY:

  • The child_process module in Node.js enables the execution of system commands and scripts within a Node.js application.

  • Functions such as child_process.exec() and child_process.execSync() accept a command string and execute it on the server.

  • However, when user input is directly incorporated into these functions, it can create vulnerabilities susceptible to command injection.

FLAG

chctf{1_l0v3_5p4wn1n6_n0d3_ch1ld_pr0c355}

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