ZeroBoxVaccine attack path and techniques
Vaccine is a very 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 | Very Easy |
| Time to user | 25m |
| Time to root | 1h 0m |
| User owned | 2026-08-20 |
| Root owned | 2026-08-20 |
| Relevant for | HTB-Starting-Point |
Attack path summary
Extract archive via FTP, exploit SQL injection with sqlmap to obtain user hash, and abuse sudo vi to spawn root shell.
Techniques
FTP SQLi Sudo Tar Wildcard
Related solved machines
Other machines I solved that share techniques with Vaccine.
- Appointment (HTB Linux Very Easy)
- Crocodile (HTB Linux Very Easy)
- Fawn (HTB Linux Very Easy)
- Simple CTF (THM Linux Easy)
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