DevArea — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

DevArea — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

DevArea chains a SOAP service SSRF through Hoverfly middleware RCE to foothold, then escalates via Flask session forgery, command injection, and a symlink/log-write trick to root. A deeply layered box with real-world misconfigurations at every turn.

March 28, 2026 · 9 min · Logan Dawson
VariaType — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

VariaType — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

VariaType is a CVE-chaining masterpiece — three distinct vulnerabilities in font-processing tools combine to take you from unauthenticated to root. If you want practice identifying real-world supply-chain CVEs, this box delivers.

March 14, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Principal — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Principal — HackTheBox Walkthrough

Principal chains a fresh CVE in pac4j-jwt — where encryption was mistaken for authentication — with SSH CA key abuse to go from zero to root on a Java Spring Boot platform.

March 12, 2026 · 7 min · Logan Dawson
Gavel — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Gavel — HackTheBox Walkthrough

Gavel chains an exposed git repo, a subtle PDO prepared statement SQL injection, and a creative PHP sandbox escape — overwriting the php.ini from inside the sandbox itself — to reach root.

March 7, 2026 · 9 min · Logan Dawson
AirTouch — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

AirTouch — HackTheBox Walkthrough

AirTouch is a unique HTB medium box where you pivot through three network segments entirely over WiFi — cracking WPA-PSK, stealing session cookies from decrypted traffic, and pulling off a real-cert evil twin attack to capture MSCHAPv2 credentials.

March 6, 2026 · 9 min · Logan Dawson
Interpreter — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Interpreter — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Interpreter chains a pre-auth deserialization RCE against a healthcare integration platform with a devious Python f-string injection to reach root — a box that rewards thorough enumeration and creative payload crafting.

February 27, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Pterodactyl — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Pterodactyl — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

A Minecraft panel hiding two CVEs and a SUSE-specific PAM trick — Pterodactyl chains a Laravel LFI into code execution, then escalates via a race-condition SUID mount flaw in udisks2.

February 26, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Monitorsfour — Medium Windows machine walkthrough cover

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
Overwatch — Medium Windows machine walkthrough cover

Overwatch — HackTheBox Walkthrough

Overwatch chains MSSQL linked server credential capture via DNS poisoning with a WCF service PowerShell injection to go from unauthenticated to Domain Admin on a Windows Server 2022 DC.

January 24, 2026 · 8 min · Logan Dawson
Browsed — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Browsed — HackTheBox Walkthrough

Browsed is a devious medium Linux box where you weaponize a Chrome extension upload feature to chain browser automation, bash arithmetic injection, and Python bytecode poisoning into a full root compromise.

January 10, 2026 · 9 min · Logan Dawson