Last week I had participated for iCTF along with pwndevils. The game was pretty neat wherein you unlock A&D challenges for interaction by solving the Jeopardy chals of which one was echodoor.

We were given a file, server.go, apparently what is running behind. To be honest, this was my first time dealing with a Golang as a server. I decided to tackle it as that was the only web challenge. Picking out the necessary stuffs from the given source code,

func dump_config(w http.ResponseWriter, r \*http.Request) {
        if r.Referer() != "http://" + r.Host + "/menu" {
                http.Redirect(w, r, "/menu", http.StatusTemporaryRedirect)
                return
        }
        data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("./config.tar.gz")
        if err != nil {
                fmt.Fprintf(w, "error: %v", err)
                return
        }
        fmt.Fprintf(w, "%s", string(data))
}

The above piece of stuff was pretty much important. Setting the referrer with the right path would give out config.tar.gz file. Deflating and untaring it gave couple of files - creds.txt & flag.cfg.

Inside creds.txt, there was, supposedly, username and password - SuperFast & 5up3rFuR10u$ - which we can use to login to the portal. Also, flag.cfg contained

directory: /
file: flaA4aAaAaAAAAaag9G.txt

At this point, it was evident what was supposed to be read. After logging in, we had a field wherein we could enter ip. From the above-mentioned source code, it was known that only 15 character was the limit (apparently I do not have any screenshots of the chal and it is taken down while I’m writing this). Entering characters through the website was not working as there was a client side validation being done and only alphabets along with . were not filtered.

Well, interacting with the server directly made more sense. Apparently, there were two constraints of which one was a character limit of 15 and the only binaries that were inside the server was ping and sh.

After brain storming with my teammates, finally we got the flag by using the -v option in shwhich would write input to standard error after reading it.