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WingData — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

WingData chains two fresh CVEs — an unauthenticated RCE in Wing FTP Server and a Python tarfile filter bypass via PATH_MAX overflow — into a clean root. Don’t let the ‘Easy’ rating fool you.

February 26, 2026 · 7 min · Logan Dawson
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Monitorsfour — HackTheBox Walkthrough

MonitorsFour chains a fresh Cacti RCE vulnerability with an exposed Docker API to go from web login to full Windows host compromise — a great lesson in container escape methodology.

February 6, 2026 · 6 min · Logan Dawson
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Facts — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Facts chains a Rails mass-assignment CVE in CamaleonCMS to admin access, leaks MinIO credentials hiding a backdoored SSH key, and escapes to root through Puppet’s facter tool — a satisfying end-to-end story about trusting your CMS too much.

February 2, 2026 · 6 min · Logan Dawson
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Unified — HackTheBox Starting Point Walkthrough

Unified is a Very Easy Linux box that weaponizes the infamous Log4Shell vulnerability against an unpatched UniFi Network controller, then chains unauthenticated MongoDB access to go from nobody to root.

January 31, 2026 · 5 min · Logan Dawson
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Fries — HackTheBox Walkthrough

Fries is a Hard Windows box that takes you through a dense multi-layer attack chain: credential leaks in Gitea, authenticated RCE in pgAdmin, Docker CA key theft, LDAP credential poisoning, and finally ADCS certificate abuse to own the domain.

November 22, 2025 · 9 min · Logan Dawson
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Conversor — HackTheBox Walkthrough

A Flask-based XML/XSLT converter with exposed source code, an unsanitized file upload, and a cron-powered RCE — topped off with a fresh needrestart CVE for root.

October 25, 2025 · 6 min · Logan Dawson
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NanoCorp — HackTheBox Walkthrough

NanoCorp chains a sneaky NTLM capture through a hiring portal’s file upload, Active Directory ACL abuse via BloodHound, and a Checkmk MSI repair privilege escalation — all on a fully patched Windows Server 2022 DC.

8 min · Logan Dawson