Gavel — Medium Linux machine walkthrough cover

Gavel — HackTheBox Retired 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 Retired 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
CCTV — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

CCTV — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

CCTV is a deceptively layered Easy box where default credentials are just the beginning — JWT forgery, daemon-based command injection, and a clever motionEye auth quirk all stand between you and root.

March 5, 2026 · 8 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
WingData — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

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
Monitorsfour — Medium Windows machine walkthrough cover

Monitorsfour — HackTheBox Retired 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
Meow — Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

Meow — HackTheBox Starting Point Walkthrough

Meow is HTB’s gentlest introduction to penetration testing — a single open Telnet port, no password on the root account, and an immediate lesson in why legacy services are dangerous.

January 30, 2026 · 4 min · Logan Dawson