<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Active on tomato's blog</title><link>https://blog.akmee.xyz/series/active/</link><description>Recent content in Active on tomato's blog</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:48:49 -0300</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.akmee.xyz/series/active/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Interpreter Writeup - HackTheBox</title><link>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/active/interpreter/</link><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/active/interpreter/</guid><description>Medium Linux machine exploiting CVE-2023-43208 (Mirth Connect RCE) for initial access, followed by MySQL credential leakage, PBKDF2 hash cracking, and an f-string eval SSTI in a local Flask server to escalate to root.</description></item><item><title>Planning Writeup - HackTheBox</title><link>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/planning/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/planning/</guid><description>Planning is an easy Linux assumed-breached machine where initial access comes through CVE-2024-9264, a SQLi-to-RCE in Grafana. After landing in a Docker container, credentials leaked from environment variables give SSH access to the host. Privilege escalation involves finding a cleartext password in a readable database file and abusing a cron job manager running as root.</description></item><item><title>Scepter Writeup - HackTheBox</title><link>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/scepter/</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/scepter/</guid><description>Scepter is a hard Windows Active Directory machine where initial access comes from cracking encrypted .pfx files found on an exposed NFS share. From there, the path to root chains two ADCS vulnerabilities — ESC9 and ESC14 — abusing certificate template misconfigurations and UPN/email attribute manipulation to impersonate privileged users and ultimately DCSync the domain.</description></item><item><title>Environment Writeup - HackTheBox</title><link>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/environment/</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.akmee.xyz/writeups/retired/environment/</guid><description>Environment is a medium Linux machine where breaking the login page leaks the Laravel version, leading to CVE-2024-52301 — an argument injection that lets you switch the app environment and bypass authentication. From the dashboard, a file upload filter bypass gives RCE. Root comes from decrypting a GPG backup to recover credentials and abusing BASH_ENV preserved via env_keep in sudoers.</description></item></channel></rss>