ZeroBoxKnife attack path and techniques
Knife is a easy Linux 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 | Linux |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Time to user | 25m |
| Time to root | 1h 0m |
| User owned | 2026-08-20 |
| Root owned | 2026-08-20 |
Attack path summary
Knife is an easy difficulty Linux machine that features an application which is running on a backdoored version of PHP. This vulnerability is leveraged to obtain the foothold on the server.
Techniques
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