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2018weight 35.50NYUSEC

CSAW CTF Final Round 2018

17 challenges with 25 published community solutions between them. Solution links go to CTFtime’s task page, which aggregates every writeup for a challenge - individual blog posts rot, the aggregator does not.

Full task list on CTFtime

Binary exploitation6

Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.

Reverse engineering5

Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.

Cryptography3

Recover a plaintext or a key from something that was supposed to protect it. In practice: identify the scheme, find the parameter the author got wrong, exploit it.

Web2

Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.

Misc1

Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.

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