# superbee

Author: Andris

Tags: web

Points: 100 (89 solves)

We have an API with the following relevant endpoints: 1) /main/index gives us the flag provided that we have the session cookie set to MD5("admin" + auth_key). 2) /admin/authkey gives us AES-CBC-ENCRYPT(ptxt=auth_key, iv=PADDED(auth_crypt_key), key=PADDED(auth_crypt_key)) if the server’s domain is localhost.

We are also given this config

app_name = superbee
auth_key = [----------REDEACTED------------]
flag = [----------REDEACTED------------]


app_name, _ = web.AppConfig.String("app_name")

In order to call endpoint 1 and get the flag, we need to get the auth_key. We can call endpoint 2 by simply manually setting the Host header to localhost. From there we need to compute AES-CBC-DECRYPT(ctxt=encrypted_auth_key, iv=PADDED(auth_crypt_key), key=PADDED(auth_crypt_key)) Meaning we need to find out the auth_crypt_key. Since auth_crypt_key is read from the config but not actually stored there, it defaults to "". So by setting the session cookie to MD5("admin" + AES-CBC-DECRYPT(ctxt=encrypted_auth_key, iv=PADDED(""), key=PADDED(""))) we can get the flag from endpoint 1.