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# Exploitation 4

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This challenge requires us to read the /flag.txt file

During our enumeration we found the **Elasticsearch Directory Traversal (CVE-2015-5531)** vulnerabilities

Description: Directory traversal vulnerability in Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors related to snapshot API calls.

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We change the path to /flag.txt to read the file. But we got encoded data.

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We used some online decoding tools to decode the data from decimal into ascii.

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Flag: ***RC15{J5ekuUdMY7BLZmktYCXzWZhZZ4J3W8pv}***


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