Legacy attack path and techniques
Legacy 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
Legacy is a fairly straightforward beginner-level machine which demonstrates the potential security risks of SMB on Windows. Only one publicly available exploit is required to obtain administrator access.
Techniques
CVE-2008-4250 Exploiting-SMB HTB
Related solved machines
Other machines I solved that share techniques with Legacy.
- Blue (HTB Windows Easy)
- Devel (HTB Windows Easy)
- Grandpa (HTB Windows Easy)
- Granny (HTB Windows Easy)
- Jerry (HTB Windows Easy)
- Netmon (HTB Windows Easy)
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