Information disclosure in version control history
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This lab discloses sensitive information via its version control history. To solve the lab, obtain the password for the administrator user then log in and delete the user carlos.
Adding .git we obtain a version control history:
Deep dive to each dir/file to check if there're some interesting data:
In the 'Head' page there's a potential path, trying to go there: /refs/heads/master
there's an alphanumeric string:
and remembering COMMIT_EDITMSG page and searching into others directories, theres a great info into: /logs/HEAD
Downloading and opening index file there're an encoded text in hex:
that in clear text contains interesting data:
admin.conf
admin_panel.php
Adding those paths, I've not found a solution, so i decided to download the entire git directories and use a dedicated tool.
Download Git Dir: wget -r https://0afe00be03be902083195529004100e5.web-security-academy.net/.git
Now we've download all git files locally, so go there to investigate well (cd ~/Documents/0a2000e40417d00885e2135600ed00cb.web-security-academy.net/.git), files are hidden by default, so we can see them using the flag -h (ls -lah).
It seems the same thing, so we can try to use git commands to check logs: git log
Great, only now i've undestand that those values were about git commits, so the first one seems more interesting, explore it using git show command:
git show e06350084adb1d7a44eef13faf0a9cd6cac55bd5
and finally we obtain the admin password value!
Awesome, now we can login us as administrator (administrator::bohd9ui3rn3yqzgsktq1)
go to admin portal page:
and delete 'Carlos' user completing the lab.
