# Pterodactyl writeup

## Phase 1: Scanning and Recon

First step is starting nmap scan to scan for open ports on the machine

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Found two open ports 22 (SSH) and 80 (HTTP)

By accessing the http server through the browser it redirects to pterodactyl.htb, so we have to add it in /etc/hosts file

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By enumerating for Subdomains using FFUF, found panel subdomain

```
ffuf -w /home/mohab/Downloads/subdomains-top1million-5000.txt -u http://pterodactyl.htb/ -H "Host: FUZZ.pterodactyl.htb" -fs 145
```

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We can visit panel.pterodactyl.htb after adding it to /etc/hosts

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After researching i found an Unautheticated RCE vulnerability CVE-2025-49132

## Exploitation

after searching for CVE-2025-49132, I found an exploit on github

{% embed url="<https://github.com/malw0re/CVE-2025-49132-Mods>" %}


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