ZeroBoxGrandpa attack path and techniques
Grandpa is a easy Windows machine on Hack The Box that I solved myself. This page is my short attack path summary and the techniques it trains.
| Platform | Hack The Box |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Time to user | 25m |
| Time to root | 1h 0m |
| User owned | 2026-08-20 |
| Root owned | 2026-08-20 |
Attack path summary
Grandpa is one of the simpler machines on Hack The Box, however it covers the widely-exploited CVE-2017-7269. This vulnerability is trivial to exploit and granted immediate access to thousands of IIS servers around the globe when it became public knowledge.
Techniques
CVE-2017-7269 HTB techniques
Related solved machines
Other machines I solved that share techniques with Grandpa.
- Granny (HTB Windows Easy)
- Devel (HTB Windows Easy)
- Optimum (HTB Windows Easy)
- Blue (HTB Windows Easy)
- Jerry (HTB Windows Easy)
- Legacy (HTB Windows Easy)
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