Topology HTB write up

Equations can cause more headache than you think…

Introduction

Hi everyone, welcome to my journey into infosec. Today, we will explore a simple latex injection that results in an information disclosure, which will give us our first foothold. Afterwards, we will examine a gnuplot privilege escalation that will give us root privileges. Let’s get started!

Enumeration

Let’s begin our assessment using the nmap tool as usual:

# Nmap 7.94 scan initiated Wed Nov 15 15:33:39 2023 …

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