This holiday there were several CTFs, and I participated in SUSCTF 2022 with team SU. This post briefly records my experience with several of the challenges I participated in.
The list of challenges I will discuss is as follows:
In May 2021, I solved my first Intigriti XSS challenge. Since then, I play every XSS challenge afterward, and solved most of them. Sometimes it’s painful when you try everything you know but still can’t solve it, however, the moment you made it, the pain is gone, replaced with joy and happiness.
As a player, I want to be on the other end(as a challenge maker) at least once, if I have an idea of an interesting XSS challenge.
I talked to @PinkDraconian in Jan 2021 and share an XSS challenge I created, after a few discussions, it gets accepted. This write-up is about the story behind the challenge.
If you don’t know what CTF is, you can refer to my previous article: How to Get Started with Web Challenges in CTF?, which briefly introduces what CTF is and some basic types of challenges.
I played DiceCTF 2021 seriously last year and finally solved 6 web challenges. My experience is here: DiceCTF 2021 - Summary. I took a look at this year’s DiceCTF and was completely shocked. The difficulty level is completely different.
There are a total of 10 web challenges this time, with 1 easy challenge solved by 365 teams, another relatively simple one solved by 75 teams, and the other 8 challenges solved by only 5 teams or less, with one of them unsolved.
As a person who likes web and JS-related tips, this is a great learning opportunity to learn various techniques through the writeup released after the competition. There won’t be notes on all web challenges below, only the ones I’m interested in.
Glints is a job search platform based in Singapore, and they just got a 20M investment last year, they have a team in Taiwan as well.
In July 2021, I found Glints bug bounty program so I spent some time on it, and I found 4 vulnerabilities in total in the end.
The vulnerabilities I found could have:
In other words, the attacker can steal all users’ information by exploiting the vulnerabilities.
Let’s see what it is.
Recently, during a penetration test, our team discovered an interesting SQL injection case. Due to some features, we couldn’t directly use existing tools to retrieve data. We had to modify the tools or write scripts to effectively utilize them. Therefore, this article will share two practical cases and my own solutions.
I have put these two cases on Heroku and turned them into two small challenges. If you are interested, you can try them out:
(The Heroku links are no longer available)
Password reset is a mechanism that almost all websites have. The most common way is to send a password reset link via email, and after clicking the link, the user can set a new password for the account. Although this mechanism is common, there are some small security details to pay attention to.
This time, I am going to write about an account takeover vulnerability caused by the password reset function that I reported at the end of June this year.
The biggest news in the cybersecurity industry at the end of 2021 is undoubtedly the Log4j vulnerability, also known as CVE-2021-44228 or Log4Shell. Some even describe it as a “nuclear-level vulnerability,” highlighting the far-reaching impact of this vulnerability.
While there are many technical analyses of the vulnerability, those without technical backgrounds may only know that the vulnerability is severe without understanding why or how it works. Therefore, I want to write a more straightforward article that non-technical people can understand.
There is very little information available in Chinese about CREST, the organization, and CPSA, the certification. In Taiwan, it is considered a relatively obscure certification. I gained a basic understanding of this organization and certification after reading this article: ECSA v10 Equivalent Application CREST CPSA Security Analyst Certification Tutorial / ECSA with CPSA Equivalency Recognition Step.
In December, I took the CPSA certification exam with a colleague and we both passed. I am writing this post to share my experience.
HITCON 2021 DEVCORE organized a wargame, which can be found here: https://hackmd.io/@d3vc0r3/hitcon2021
It was stated that the game can be completed within two hours, so I decided to give it a try. However, due to my lack of experience, I got stuck in one part for a long time. Apart from that, the difficulty level was not high. This article briefly records the process and experience of solving the game.
I have introduced Intigriti’s XSS challenge many times before, so I won’t go into detail this time. If you are interested, you can refer to my previous articles. The focus of this article will be on their October challenge, which is not difficult. After spending about one or two days to solve it, I didn’t touch it anymore. I decided to write this article because after the challenge ended, I saw many unexpected solutions, so I wanted to record them in an article.