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VulnOS 2 Walkthrough (OSCP Prep)

Continuing our series of write-ups for OSCP-like VulnHub boxes, today we'll tackle the VulnOS 2 virtual machine. VulnOS 2 is an Ubuntu box running SSH, HTTP, and, interestingly, an IRC daemon. To get root, we'll need to enumerate the webserver to find a classic SQL injection vulnerability. We'll then use the SQLi to capture credentials and log in over SSH. Finally on the system, some basic enumeration will lead us to a kernel exploit to pop a root shell.

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