Hack.lu CTF 2025
7 challenges with 9 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 CTFtimeMisc4
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
- misk
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Cryptography1
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.
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
Web1
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- web
- xss
Same technique in picoCTF: notepad, noted, Client-side-again
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.
- windows-kernel
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3