Phantom Track

Level 6 → Level 7

Scheduled Sins
ACT I420 pts+50 first-blood bonus

Mission

Hijack a group-writable cron script running as flagkeeper6 every minute.

Why this matters in 2026

Scheduled tasks with loose permissions are a top-3 privilege-escalation vector on Linux. Systemd-timer and NFS scheduled-task variants are covered later in a dedicated privilege-escalation track.

Mitigation era: 2026-04 · rotation policy: levels may be refreshed as CVEs are patched out of distro defaults.

Connection Terminal

Use the password for phantom6 that you captured on the previous level, then:
ssh [email protected] -p 2223
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