diff --git a/Portswigger/Insecure Deserialization/Lab 3.md b/Portswigger/Insecure Deserialization/Lab 3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38df2a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Portswigger/Insecure Deserialization/Lab 3.md @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +# Portswigger Insecure Deserialization - Lab 3 + +## Using application functionality to exploit insecure deserialization + +In this lab we need to modfiy the serliazled cookie for the account either for ``wiener`` or ``gregg`` and delete `morale.txt` from `carlos` user's home directory + + + + +We can login with the credentials ``wiener:peter`` although we are given another account ``gregg:rosebud`` but we'll see what's the purpose of `gregg` user + + + + + +We can grab the user's cookie and see that's it's a serialized cookie which is base64 encoded + + + + + +```bash +O:4:"User":3:{s:8:"username";s:6:"wiener";s:12:"access_token";s:32:"evc58p8rx44g58fzvikyrajffjmtfn8q";s:11:"avatar_link";s:19:"users/wiener/avatar";} +``` + +To understand what's happening in the cookie here + +- `O:4` represents the object `user` of character length `4` which as `3` attributes +- `s:8` represents the the string attribute `username` which is of character length `8` which has the string value `wiener` of having length `6` +- `s:12` represents the string attribute `access_token` of the character length `12` which has a random value of `32` characters +- `s:11` represents the string attribute `avatar_link` of character legnth `11` having the value `users/wiener/avatar` which is the path where the avatar is stored of character length `19` + + +It also has an option to delete the account which also deletes the avatar `users/wiener/avatar` so this is probably the reason why we are given two accounts if we fail to exploit the application's functionality with wiener + + + +To solve the lab we need to delete `morale.txt` from `carlos's` home directory so we need to change the avatar path to `/home/carlos/morale.txt` + + +```bash +O:4:"User":3:{s:8:"username";s:6:"wiener";s:12:"access_token";s:32:"jg6c74hrhfs1r1y44n0arp5hmux7zem2";s:11:"avatar_link";s:23:"/home/carlos/morale.txt";} +``` + + + +Replacing the cookie and clicking on the delete account button we'll solve the lab + + + + +