Travel

Verified writeups for the Travel machine of Hack The Box

Travel

$ tldr Memcache deser (Gopherus) → LDAP modify → sudo group privesc

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Operating system	Linux
Difficulty	Hard
Vector	Active Directory
IP	10.10.10.189
Retirement date	2020-09-12
Skills	Git Project Recomposition (.git) [Git-Dumper] Abusing WordPress (SimplePie + Memcache) [PHP Code Analysis] Memcache Object Poisoning (Gopherus + Deserialization Attack + RCE) LDAP Enumeration (Apache Directory Studio - GUI) Abusing LDAP to add an SSH Key Abusing LDAP to modify the user group to sudo (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
WordPress Exploitation	HackTricks	Open
Insecure Deserialization	PortSwigger	Open
Remote Code Execution (RCE)	HackTricks	Open

Related skills worth mastering

Local File Inclusion (LFI) · Remote File Inclusion (RFI) · Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271)

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Last updated: 2026-06-07