thelightfinder

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim (In the name of Allah the most gracious, the most merciful) So recently I and @electro decided to solve wargames and CTFs in the spirit of honing the skills and because we are preparing for something really important (another post for another day). We decided to start with the labs at overthewire  and the first on the list was Bandit Lab. Bandit Lab was a fun experience, mostly easy, except for one or two tricky levels, level 26 and level 33 in particular. This Labs weren't so difficult but required a bit of thinking outside the box, hence why am documenting them. NB : this writeup doesn't include our thought process while solving the levels Level 26 Level Description When we attempt to login to this level using the private key obtained from the previous level we get automatically logged out and since the level goal already informed us that we are dealing with a different shell, we need to figure out what it is and how to break out of it. Above is the ...