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cookie

Description

It is a simple login service that manages authentication status with cookies. If you successfully log in with the admin account, you can get the flag.

The flag type is DH{…}.

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#!/usr/bin/python3
from flask import Flask, request, render_template, make_response, redirect, url_for

app = Flask(__name__)

try:
    FLAG = open('./flag.txt', 'r').read()
except:
    FLAG = '[**FLAG**]'

users = {
    'guest': 'guest',
    'admin': FLAG
}

@app.route('/')
def index():
    username = request.cookies.get('username', None)
    if username:
        return render_template('index.html', text=f'Hello {username}, {"flag is " + FLAG if username == "admin" else "you are not admin"}')
    return render_template('index.html')

@app.route('/login', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def login():
    if request.method == 'GET':
        return render_template('login.html')
    elif request.method == 'POST':
        username = request.form.get('username')
        password = request.form.get('password')
        try:
            pw = users[username]
        except:
            return '<script>alert("not found user");history.go(-1);</script>'
        if pw == password:
            resp = make_response(redirect(url_for('index')) )
            resp.set_cookie('username', username)
            return resp 
        return '<script>alert("wrong password");history.go(-1);</script>'

app.run(host='0.0.0.0', port=8000)

Analyzation

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users = {
    'guest': 'guest',
    'admin': FLAG
}

Solution

Login with default user: 'guest': 'guest' . Then change the cookie to "admin" and get flag.

The flag is

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DH{7952074b69ee388ab45432737f9b0c56}
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