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.
