Finders Keepers

Challenge Description

Patch found a flag! He stored it in his home directory... should be able to keep it?

Solution

• From the description, we know that the flag is in the home directory of the user patch.

• But we cannot access the home directory of patch because we don't have the permission to do so.

• sudo wasnt even there 💀

• Looking for the flag using find

• Looking for interesting binaries with suid bit set but nothing

• Looking for interesting files with sgid bit set, we find the find

• Using find we can get the flag

Flag

flag{e4bd38e78379a5a0b29f047b91598add}