Hack The Box: Knife Walkthrough | Exploiting a Backdoored PHP Version (Easy)
Hack The Box Knife walkthrough showing how a backdoor in PHP 8.1.0 can be exploited to gain remote code execution.
Privilege escalation was then achieved by abusing the knife binary with GTFOBins techniques to execute commands as root and retrieve the root flag.
This machine demonstrates how backdoored software and misconfigured binaries can quickly lead to full system compromise.
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