1337 Local CTF: Notebook — Smarty SSTI → WAF Bypass → File Read
Exploiting Smarty template injection and bypassing a substring WAF with string concatenation.
1337 Local CTF: numbA thiri — CRT Reconstruction
Recovering the flag integer from residues modulo small primes and a quotient.
1337 Local CTF: ret2win — Token Validation → Return Address Control
Building a valid token, overflowing an 80-byte stack buffer, and returning into win().
1337 Local CTF: shellcode — open/read/write /flag.txt
Hand-building x86-64 Linux shellcode with jmp-call-pop and null-byte avoidance.
1337 Local CTF: tbarkallah 3lek awldi katchfi lghalil — Rev First Blood
Accepted first-blood reverse-engineering flag; local detailed analysis needs reconstruction before public publishing.
1337 Local CTF: The BOSS — .NET Dropper → AES Payload → Rolling XOR
Reverse-engineering a .NET malware dropper, decrypting an embedded payload, and extracting a statically built flag.
PearlCTF 2025 — Tic-Tac-Toe: SSRF to Docker Socket → Container Escape
Exploiting a Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability to access the Docker Engine API, spawning a privileged container with host filesystem mount to read the flag.
Spooky Query Leaks (USC-CTF 2024): SQLite3 SQL Injection via UPSERT
Exploiting an unsanitized INSERT statement in a Flask/SQLite3 registration form — using ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE to overwrite the admin password and capture the flag.
Topology (HackTheBox): LaTeX Injection → Local File Read
Exploiting a LaTeX injection vulnerability in a web application to read local files and gain initial access to the system.
JWT - Unsecure File Signature (Root-Me): JWT Algorithm Confusion Attack
Exploiting a JWT algorithm confusion vulnerability where the server accepts 'none' algorithm, allowing token forgery and admin access.