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
Pirate — Hard Windows machine walkthrough cover

Pirate — HackTheBox Season 10 Walkthrough

Pirate is a brutal Hard-rated Windows Domain Controller that chains together gMSA password extraction, ADFS internals abuse, NTLM relay over a Hyper-V double-pivot, and SPN hijacking to reach Domain Admin — a genuine enterprise attack simulation.

February 27, 2026 · 14 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 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
Facts — Season 10 Release Arena Linux machine walkthrough cover

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
Responder — Very Easy Windows machine walkthrough cover

Responder — HackTheBox Starting Point Walkthrough

A deceptively instructive box that chains LFI with NTLM hash theft — Responder shows how a single vulnerable parameter on a Windows web server can hand you administrator credentials.

February 1, 2026 · 5 min · Logan Dawson
Three — Starting Point Linux machine walkthrough cover

Three — HackTheBox Starting Point Walkthrough

A misconfigured S3-compatible bucket with an open write policy turns a static band website into a remote code execution opportunity. Here’s how subdomain enumeration and a single AWS CLI command led to a shell.

February 1, 2026 · 5 min · Logan Dawson
Oopsie — HackTheBox Linux machine walkthrough cover

Oopsie — HackTheBox Starting Point Walkthrough

Oopsie chains credential reuse, a cookie-based IDOR, and a file upload to land a shell — then a SUID binary with an unsafe PATH gets us root. A masterclass in chained misconfigurations.

January 31, 2026 · 7 min · Logan Dawson
Unified — Very Easy Linux machine walkthrough cover

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