Real World CTF 4th
11 challenges with 22 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 CTFtimeBinary exploitation4
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
- clone-and-pwn
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- virtualization
- pwn
- machine
- virtual
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- normal
- pwn
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- baby
- pwn
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
Misc3
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- check-in
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Web2
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- waf-bypass
- web
- sqli
Same technique in picoCTF: Irish-Name-Repo 3, More SQLi, Secret Box
- node.js
- apache
- nodejs
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
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
Reverse engineering1
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
- sandbox
- java
Same technique in picoCTF: vault-door-1, vault-door-3, vault-door-4