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HTB-Conversor

Conversor is an easy Linux machine featuring a web application that converts XML documents into visually formatted HTML documents using XSLT stylesheets. The application processes user-supplied XSLT files without proper sanitisation, leading to an XSLT injection vulnerability. . For privilege escalation, the machine highlights execution of needrestart a vulnerable executable with sudo privileges.

HTB-Kobold

Kobold is a Linux machine centred around a recently disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2026-23744) in MCPJam, an open-source Model Context Protocol server. Initial access is gained through unauthenticated remote code execution via the MCP connect endpoint. Privilege escalation abuses Docker group membership to mount the host filesystem and read the root flag.

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HTB-Interpreter

This machine involves exploiting a known vulnerability in MirthConnect 4.4.0 to gain an initial foothold, cracking a PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256 hash to escalate to a real user, and finally abusing an insecure `eval()` call in a locally running Flask service to read the root flag.

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HTB-Pterodactyl

Pterodactyl is a medium linux machine released on 7 Feb 2026 by Headmonitor and TheCyberGeek. This machine runs Pterodactyl Panel which is vulnerable to CVE-2025-49132, an unauthenticated RCE which leads us to user. And for privilege escalation chaining CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019, by forging XDG_SEAT and XDG_VTNR environment variables in .pam_environment user can gain active polkit rights.

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HTB-Expressway

Expressway is an easy linux machine released on 20 Sep 2025 by darkmaddy.