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It's a setup... Can you get the flags in time?
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Remember when deploying the virtual machine, it can take up to 5 minutes to properly boot up. Good luck, happy hacking.
Escalate your privileges and acquire root.txt
LiveOverflow has an amazing video exploring this kind of vulnerability, as well as how to remediate it which you can find here. I thoroughly recommend checking it out if you're having trouble visualising how this kind of race condition works and how to properly exploit it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g137gsB9Wk
The Wikipedia entry for this kind of vulnerability is also extremely useful, and provides similar examples in C of how this vulnerability can occur and be exploited for leveraging privileges.Have a great day, stay safe.
~ Polo
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