"Annapurna": High privileges
Scenario: "Annapurna": High privileges
Level: Medium
Type: Hack
Tags: hack advent2025
Access: Email
Description: You are logged in as the user admin .
You have been tasked with auditing the admin user privileges in this server; "admin" should not have sudo (root) access.
Exploit this server so you as the admin user can read the file /root/secret.txt
Save the content of /root/secret.txt to the file /home/admin/mysolution.txt , for example: echo "secret" > ~/mysolution.txt
Root (sudo) Access: False
Test: Running md5sum /home/admin/mysolution.txt returns
The "Check My Solution" button runs the script /home/admin/agent/check.sh, which you can see and execute.
Time to Solve: 20 minutes.
