OverTheWire: Bandit Level 15

In the last post, we gained access to bandit14. Now, let’s find the password for bandit15.

Level 15

Level Goal

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30000 on localhost.

Commands you may need to solve this level

ssh, telnet, nc, openssl, s_client, nmap

To get the password for bandit15, we need to submit the password of bandit14 to localhost on port 30000. But we don’t know the password for bandit14 yet, because we logged in using SSH private key.

In the previous level, we were told that the password for bandit14 is stored in /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14. So let’s first get the password.

bandit14@bandit:~$ cat /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14
4wcYUJFw0k0XLShlDzztnTBHiqxU3b3e

Level Goal

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30000 on localhost.

Commands you may need to solve this level

ssh, telnet, nc, openssl, s_client, nmap