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Ashwin Adhikari

Security Enthusiast | CTF Player

HTB-Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is a medium linux machine released on 7 Feb 2026 by Headmonitor and TheCyberGeek. This machine runs Pterodactyl Panel which is vulnerable to CVE-2025-49132, an unauthenticated RCE which leads us to user. And for privilege escalation chaining CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019, by forging XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables in .pam_environment user can gain active polkit rights.

HTB-Conversor

Conversor is an easy Linux machine featuring a web application that converts XML documents into visually formatted HTML documents using XSLT stylesheets. The application processes user-supplied XSLT files without proper sanitisation, leading to an XSLT injection vulnerability. . For privilege escalation, the machine highlights execution of needrestart a vulnerable executable with sudo privileges.

HTB-Expressway

Expressway is an easy linux machine released on 20 Sep 2025 by darkmaddy.