Space Heroes 2024
22 challenges with 36 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 CTFtimeMisc8
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
Petey the Panther's Guide to the Galaxy
3 writeupsAlso written up in: Aryt3/writeups, pspspsps-ctf/writeups
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Slowly Downward
2 writeupsAlso written up in: Aryt3/writeups, deannreid/CTF-Writeups, pspspsps-ctf/writeups
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
A Window into Space
1 writeupAlso written up in: Aryt3/writeups, pspspsps-ctf/writeups
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Intergalactic Cinema
1 writeupAlso written up in: Aryt3/writeups, zukash/ctf-writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
antikythera
1 writeupAlso written up in: pspspsps-ctf/writeups
Same technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
ATM
1 writeupSame technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
knowhere
1 writeupSame technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
ᒣ⍑╎ϟ ╎ϟ リᒷᖋᒣ
1 writeupSame technique in picoCTF: PW Crack 2, Permissions, Specialer
Uncategorised6
The upstream scoreboard did not say, so neither do we.
Deadjim
1 official solutionAlso written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Also written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Also written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Also written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Ranger
1 official solutionAlso written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Risvy
1 official solutionAlso written up in: SolarDebris/writeups
Cryptography4
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.
DeathStarRansomware
1 official solutionAlso written up in: zukash/ctf-writeup
Encrypted
1 official solutionAlso written up in: zukash/ctf-writeup
Gost28147
1 official solutionAlso written up in: zukash/ctf-writeup
WarmindCommunique
1 official solutionAlso written up in: zukash/ctf-writeup
Binary exploitation3
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
Falling in ROP
1 writeupAlso written up in: zukash/ctf-writeup
Same technique in picoCTF: lockdown-horses, Guessing Game 1, vr-school
a RISC V maneuver
1 official solutionAlso written up in: KernelKrise/CTF
Helldivers
1 official solutionAlso written up in: KernelKrise/CTF
Web1
Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
GTFO Jabbas Palace
1 official solutionAlso written up in: deannreid/CTF-Writeups