Texas Security Awareness Week 2024
24 challenges with 31 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.
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Reach data or functionality the application meant to keep from you - through its inputs, its tokens, or its trust in the client.
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: logon, Cookie Monster Secret Recipe, Old Sessions
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
Misc6
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
- misc
- miscellaneous
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
- miscellaneous
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
- miscellaneous
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
- miscellaneous
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- misc
- miscellaneous
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
Forensics5
Recover something from a file, a capture, or a disk image - often from a part of it the format says is unused.
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
- forensics
Same technique in picoCTF: FindAndOpen, c0rrupt, extensions
OSINT3
Answer a question about the real world from public sources. The work is pivoting between identifiers, not exploiting anything.
- osint
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- osint
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
- osint
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook
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.
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
Binary exploitation2
Turn a memory-safety bug in a native binary into control of execution. Usually a stack overflow, a format string, or a heap primitive.
- pwn
- re
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, format string 3
- pwn
- rev
Same technique in picoCTF: Guessing Game 1, x-sixty-what, PIE TIME 2