Dab

Verified writeups for the Dab machine of Hack The Box

Dab

$ tldr Brute force + SSRF Wfuzz → memcached creds → SUID ltrace privesc

CVE / Bulletins: CVE-2018-15473 ↗

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Operating system	Linux
Difficulty	Hard
Vector	Web
IP	10.10.10.86
Retirement date	2019-02-02
Skills	Applying brute force to an authentication panel - Wfuzz (Discovering valid password) Applying cookie discovery with Wfuzz (Brute Force) SSRF - Server Side Request Forgery (Internal Port Discovery) - Wfuzz Abusing Memcached - Getting stored credentials Cracking Hashes SSH User Enumeration - CVE-2018-15473 Abusing SUID Binary Ltrace/Radare2 Inspection (Password Leaking) Hijacking dynamically linked shared object library [Privilege Escalation]

Writeups

Language	Author	Format	Link
🇪🇸 ES	S4vitar	Vídeo	Open
🇬🇧 EN	0xdf	Texto	Open
🇬🇧 EN	IppSec	Vídeo	Open

Skill resources

Curated documentation for each technique listed in the Skills column above. Sources: HackTricks, GTFOBins, PortSwigger, etc.

Skill	Source	Link
Cracking Hashes (hashcat / John)	HackTricks	Open
Server-Side Request Forgery	HackTricks	Open
SUID binaries	GTFOBins	Open
Directory fuzzing	HackTricks	Open
Remote Code Execution (RCE)	HackTricks	Open

Related skills worth mastering

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) · Sudo abuse · linPEAS · Local File Inclusion (LFI) · Remote File Inclusion (RFI) · Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271)

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Last updated: 2026-06-07