PenTesting Challenge

Derick Neriamparambil
4 min readOct 26, 2020

The machine was an easy Linux based box.

I found two different ways to get the root.

The second method was very direct and easy.

Let's get started

First Method

First, we need to find the IP address of the machine

From the output, we can understand that 10.0.2.21 is the target

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