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I am performing a penetration testing on an application hosted on an Ubuntu environment.



So using a path traversal vulnerability, I can download any file.



The API web application runs as root (shadow and brute-force are already my friends). Funny situation: I can not find the web root folder.



What I have tried:




  • Search for logs that can lead me to the path. nginx or apache2 is not there.

  • Search for nginx, apache2 or other configuration files

  • Search for common directories of web roots (https://serverfault.com/questions/144598/where-should-the-web-server-root-directory-go-in-linux)

  • Bash histories of all users


What else should I try?










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  • What about the /opt location?

    – Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
    4 hours ago











  • @Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

    – Lucian Nitescu
    4 hours ago











  • @hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

    – Lucian Nitescu
    3 hours ago
















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I am performing a penetration testing on an application hosted on an Ubuntu environment.



So using a path traversal vulnerability, I can download any file.



The API web application runs as root (shadow and brute-force are already my friends). Funny situation: I can not find the web root folder.



What I have tried:




  • Search for logs that can lead me to the path. nginx or apache2 is not there.

  • Search for nginx, apache2 or other configuration files

  • Search for common directories of web roots (https://serverfault.com/questions/144598/where-should-the-web-server-root-directory-go-in-linux)

  • Bash histories of all users


What else should I try?










share|improve this question























  • What about the /opt location?

    – Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
    4 hours ago











  • @Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

    – Lucian Nitescu
    4 hours ago











  • @hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

    – Lucian Nitescu
    3 hours ago














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I am performing a penetration testing on an application hosted on an Ubuntu environment.



So using a path traversal vulnerability, I can download any file.



The API web application runs as root (shadow and brute-force are already my friends). Funny situation: I can not find the web root folder.



What I have tried:




  • Search for logs that can lead me to the path. nginx or apache2 is not there.

  • Search for nginx, apache2 or other configuration files

  • Search for common directories of web roots (https://serverfault.com/questions/144598/where-should-the-web-server-root-directory-go-in-linux)

  • Bash histories of all users


What else should I try?










share|improve this question














I am performing a penetration testing on an application hosted on an Ubuntu environment.



So using a path traversal vulnerability, I can download any file.



The API web application runs as root (shadow and brute-force are already my friends). Funny situation: I can not find the web root folder.



What I have tried:




  • Search for logs that can lead me to the path. nginx or apache2 is not there.

  • Search for nginx, apache2 or other configuration files

  • Search for common directories of web roots (https://serverfault.com/questions/144598/where-should-the-web-server-root-directory-go-in-linux)

  • Bash histories of all users


What else should I try?







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  • What about the /opt location?

    – Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
    4 hours ago











  • @Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

    – Lucian Nitescu
    4 hours ago











  • @hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

    – Lucian Nitescu
    3 hours ago



















  • What about the /opt location?

    – Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
    4 hours ago











  • @Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

    – Lucian Nitescu
    4 hours ago











  • @hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

    – Lucian Nitescu
    3 hours ago

















What about the /opt location?

– Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
4 hours ago





What about the /opt location?

– Jeroen - IT Nerdbox
4 hours ago













@Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

– Lucian Nitescu
4 hours ago





@Jeroen-ITNerdbox no luck :)

– Lucian Nitescu
4 hours ago













@hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

– Lucian Nitescu
3 hours ago





@hiburn8 "Bash histories of all users"

– Lucian Nitescu
3 hours ago










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Use the traversal vulnerability to read



/proc/self/environ


This prints out environment variables among other thread information.



Look for a environment variable called DOCUMENT_ROOT






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    Use the traversal vulnerability to read



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    This prints out environment variables among other thread information.



    Look for a environment variable called DOCUMENT_ROOT






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      Use the traversal vulnerability to read



      /proc/self/environ


      This prints out environment variables among other thread information.



      Look for a environment variable called DOCUMENT_ROOT






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        Use the traversal vulnerability to read



        /proc/self/environ


        This prints out environment variables among other thread information.



        Look for a environment variable called DOCUMENT_ROOT






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        /proc/self/environ


        This prints out environment variables among other thread information.



        Look for a environment variable called DOCUMENT_ROOT







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