root@rumais:~# inspect gamingserver
Gaming Server
Linux room covering service enumeration, initial access, and privilege escalation. This page combines the local notes, supporting artifacts, and a cleaned-up summary of the room path.
Room Details
Primary writeup exists in local notes. This room is grouped under Linux and PrivEsc.
Summary
Linux room covering service enumeration, initial access, and privilege escalation. Use the recovered artifacts below as the evidence base for enumeration, access development, and post-exploitation review.
Notes
Recon
- This room follows the usual Linux boot-to-root pattern where service enumeration and artifact review reveal the access path.
- Gaming Server rewards careful note-taking and stepwise validation rather than trial-and-error execution.
Initial Access
- The initial foothold comes from exposed services, leaked files, or weak credentials rather than blind exploitation.
- The room path becomes clear once the recovered artifacts and service behavior are linked together.
Privilege Escalation
- Privilege escalation depends on local enumeration, trust abuse, writable automation, or delegated execution paths on the host.
- After the foothold, local context matters more than noisy exploitation.
Security Notes
- The defensive lesson is that Linux post-exploitation paths are usually avoidable with better secret handling and tighter local permissions.
Collected Output
gobuster-initial
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Gobuster v3.1.0
by OJ Reeves (@TheColonial) & Christian Mehlmauer (@firefart)
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[+] Url: http://10.10.117.156
[+] Method: GET
[+] Threads: 64
[+] Wordlist: /usr/share/wordlists/dirb/common.txt
[+] Negative Status codes: 404
[+] User Agent: gobuster/3.1.0
[+] Timeout: 10s
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2021/07/05 20:50:08 Starting gobuster in directory enumeration mode
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/.hta (Status: 403) [Size: 278]
/.htpasswd (Status: 403) [Size: 278]
/.htaccess (Status: 403) [Size: 278]
/index.html (Status: 200) [Size: 2762]
/robots.txt (Status: 200) [Size: 33]
/secret (Status: 301) [Size: 315] [--> http://10.10.117.156/secret/]
/server-status (Status: 403) [Size: 278]
/uploads (Status: 301) [Size: 316] [--> http://10.10.117.156/uploads/]
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2021/07/05 20:51:01 Finished
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nmap-initial
# Nmap 7.91 scan initiated Mon Jul 5 20:49:11 2021 as: nmap -sV -sC -oN nmap-initial 10.10.117.156
Nmap scan report for 10.10.117.156
Host is up (0.53s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open ssh OpenSSH 7.6p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
| 2048 34:0e:fe:06:12:67:3e:a4:eb:ab:7a:c4:81:6d:fe:a9 (RSA)
| 256 49:61:1e:f4:52:6e:7b:29:98:db:30:2d:16:ed:f4:8b (ECDSA)
|_ 256 b8:60:c4:5b:b7:b2:d0:23:a0:c7:56:59:5c:63:1e:c4 (ED25519)
80/tcp open http Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: House of danak
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel
Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
# Nmap done at Mon Jul 5 20:50:04 2021 -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 53.71 seconds