THM: Hollow Shell

Web challenge exploiting a ZIP-based asset upload through magic-byte forgery and a Zip Slip path traversal to plant a malicious Gunicorn hook.

August 12, 2026 · 5 min

THM: Towel on the Sunbed

Web challenge exploiting a TOCTOU race condition in a daily reward-claim endpoint using Burp Suite’s parallel Repeater requests to unlock a restricted vault.

August 12, 2026 · 4 min

THM: Hammer

Web application challenge chaining OTP brute forcing, a rate-limit bypass, JWT key manipulation, and remote command execution.

July 29, 2026 · 7 min

HTB: CozyHosting

Linux box chaining a Spring Boot Actuator session leak into cookie hijacking, command injection, JAR credential discovery, and sudo SSH abuse.

November 17, 2025 · 6 min