Google Capture The Flag 2025
35 challenges with 34 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. 16 of them also carry the solution Google Capture The Flag 2025’s own organisers published, which is linked on the challenge itself.
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The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution/README.md, solution/sol.java, solution/wget-request.sh
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: README.md, solution/README.md, solution/crack-random.py
Disassemble
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: rivit98/ctf-writeups, rivit98/ctf-writeups
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: README.md, solution.py
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution/README.md, solution/crack.py
Also written up in: a-p-n/CTF-solutions
Circo (394 Pt 7 Solves)
1 official solutionAlso written up in: ctf.harrisongreen.me
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: challenge/solution.py
Datadefinition
1 official solutionAlso written up in: moratorium08/ctf_writeups
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: sol.py
Manuscript
1 official solutionAlso written up in: a-p-n/CTF-solutions
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution.md
Multiarch 2
1 official solutionAlso written up in: rivit98/ctf-writeups
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: exploit.py
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: exploit.py
Also written up in: ilpakka/ctf
US5003597
1 official solutionAlso written up in: a-p-n/CTF-solutions
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution/solve.py
webz Exploiting zlib's Huffman Code Table
1 official solutionAlso written up in: uz56764.tistory.com
Misc9
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Also written up in: CTF-STeam/ctf-writeups, liamh95/CTF-writeups, gonzaorban/CTF-Writeups, liamh95/CTF-writeups, gonzaorban/CTF-Writeups
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution/writeup.md
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: challenge/sol.py
- pyjail
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
SHREDDED
2 official solutionsAlso written up in: shankmsd/CTF_Writeups, Hope0351/CTF-collection
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
unicornel trustzone
1 writeupSame technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Web4
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: README.md, solution/README.md
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: README.md
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
- javascript
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Java Code Analysis!?!, Live Art, secure-email-service
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Live Art, secure-email-service, No FA
Cryptography2
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.
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution.ipynb
- crypto
- circuit
- reversing
Same technique in picoCTF: It's Not My Fault 2, StegoRSA, AES-ABC
Numerology Sol
1 official solutionAlso written up in: CTF-STeam/ctf-writeups
Binary exploitation1
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
Published by the organisers in google/google-ctf: solution.md, challenge/solver.py
- pwn
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, Bizz Fuzz