Out-Of-Band RCE: CTF Walkthrough

So, this is my writeup on how I was able to achieve my first Remote Code Execution. Also after reviewing the code I was able to understand more about malicious code execution via OS functions. Finally, I was able to capture the flag and get the Hall of Fame.

Out of Band(OOB) Command Injection is performed by sending a DNS request to a server, which occurs when input data is interpreted as an operating system command. By this, an attacker can execute arbitrary commands on the system and gain unauthorized access.

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Master Pipelines with Azure Pipeline Templates

Today in the Era of DevOps and automation, we expect everything to be as quick as the click of a button and whenever the term ‘DevOps’ comes to our mind a bunch of CI-CD tools pop up automatically, Azure DevOps is on such tool of capabilities.

None of us wants to use the conventional ways to of adding manual steps to our DevOps implementation these days, which is where Azure DevOps provides us with the option of Azure pipelines which we opted for our project implementation but still we don’t want to write the same pipeline code for every application, that’s where the Azure pipeline template steps in, we will discuss how I setup and implement Azure pipeline template in my projects.

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Setting Up Docker Overlay Network

When I set forth with my journey of containerization with docker, I have gone through a misconception that Overlay networking in docker can’t be set up without any orchestrator like Docker swarm, Kubernetes. But after spending some time with containers I realized that I was wrong, Orchestrators leverage the functionality of overlay networking but it is not true that we cannot use overlay networks without any swarm or Kubernetes.

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Cache Using Cloudflare Workers’ Cache API

As we all know that the caching is a process that everyone uses using different topologies like caching at application node, geographical caching, even some organizations set up a completely dedicated cluster of nodes only for caching.

In this blog, we will discuss setting up Geographical caching using Cloudflare’s Content delivery network and Cloudflare’s workers.

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Automatically Backup Alibaba MySQL using Grandfather-Father-Son Strategy

 

So, basically what is Grandfather-father-son or GFS?

GFS backup is a common rotation scheme for backup, in which there are three or more backup cycles, such as daily, weekly, and monthly. Typically, It consists of daily backups (son, at fixed intervals of hours in a day), a weekly full backup (father, once a week), and monthly full backup (Grandfather, once a month).

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