VULNCON CTF 2021
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.
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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
- csrf
- xss
Same technique in picoCTF: notepad, noted, Client-side-again
- apache
- web
Same technique in picoCTF: Client-side-again, dont-use-client-side, Irish-Name-Repo 3
- web
- ssrf
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.
- affine
- crypto
Same technique in picoCTF: StegoRSA, Timestamped Secrets, AES-ABC
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.
- pwn
- shellcode
Same technique in picoCTF: Binary Gauntlet 2, ropfu, solfire
Reverse engineering1
Work out what a compiled program does without its source, then work backwards from the check to the input that passes it.
- obfuscated
- javascript
- reversing
Same technique in picoCTF: vault-door-1, vault-door-3, vault-door-4
Misc1
Everything that fits no other box: esolangs, puzzles, scripting exercises, and the jail escapes that have not yet earned their own category.
- kirby
- misc
- bruteforce-bytebybyte
- bytebybyte
Same technique in picoCTF: Permissions, Specialer, Codebook