File path traversal, simple case
Objective
This lab description says that there is a path traversal exists in the product display images and we need to identity it.. Also this is our first lab so things might be easier
Solution
The lab looks like older ecommmerce website and that’s how the old flipkart and amazon looks like
Now open that particular image in new tab and intercept the request in caido
As you can see in the above image, There is an image
subdirectory where a particular image fetched through the filename
parameter which means it is pulling off directly from local machine
In the request, we have to keep on traversing until we have a kind of identifier that there is possibility to get our endgoal which is to get the contents of /etc/passwd
For a single traverse, we did get an error that “No such file”
When I keep traversing like ../etc/passwd
to all the way upto ../../../etc/passwd
to get the contents of /etc/passwd