TryHackMe | Vulnerabilities 101 WriteUp

 

Understand the flaws of an application and apply your researching skills on some vulnerability databases.

Link- https://tryhackme.com/room/vulnerabilities101


An attacker has been able to upgrade the permissions of their system account from “user” to “administrator”. What type of vulnerability is this?

Operating System

You manage to bypass a login panel using cookies to authenticate. What type of vulnerability is this?

Application Logic


What year was the first iteration of CVSS published?

2005

If you wanted to assess vulnerability based on the risk it poses to an organisation, what framework would you use?

Note: We are looking for the acronym here.

VPR

If you wanted to use a framework that was free and open-source, what framework would that be?

Note: We are looking for the acronym here.

CVSS

Using NVD, how many CVEs were submitted in July 2021?

1585

Who is the author of Exploit-DB?

Offensive Security


What type of vulnerability did we use to find the name and version of the application in this example?

Version Disclosure

Follow along with the showcase of exploiting ACKme’s application to the end to retrieve a flag. What is this flag?


That’s it! See you in the next Room :)


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