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IceCTF - 45 - Toke - Web

noraj (Alexandre ZANNI)
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I have a feeling they were pretty high when they made this website...

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  1. Register a user an login with it.
  2. With your browser network analyser loot at cookies in response header of the HTTP request: Set-Cookie: jwt_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmbGFnIjoiSWNlQ1RGe2pXN190MEszbnNfNFJlX25PX3AxNENFX2ZPUl81M0NyRTdTfSIsInVzZXIiOiJhemEifQ.Zfl286kFvhPrNJG-dtoTjbPU7OxlUdTW_XKEL679uU0;.
  3. JWT stands for JSON Web Tokens and is composed of 3 parts:
    • Part1: Header, is base64 encoded, show hash algorithm.
    • Part2: Payload, base64 encoded, content.
    • Part3: Signature, signature, concatenation of header + content and then encoded with the hash algorithm contained in the header.
  4. So eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmbGFnIjoiSWNlQ1RGe2pXN190MEszbnNfNFJlX25PX3AxNENFX2ZPUl81M0NyRTdTfSIsInVzZXIiOiJhemEifQ.Zfl286kFvhPrNJG-dtoTjbPU7OxlUdTW_XKEL679uU0 match with header.payload.signature.
  5. So we get:
printf "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9" | base64 -d
{"alg":"HS256","typ":"JWT"}

printf "eyJmbGFnIjoiSWNlQ1RGe2pXN190MEszbnNfNFJlX25PX3AxNENFX2ZPUl81M0NyRTdTfSIsInVzZXIiOiJhemEifQ" | base64 -d
{"flag":"IceCTF{jW7_t0K3ns_4Re_nO_p14CE_fOR_53CrE7S}","user":"aza"}

An introduction to JSON Web Tokens is available here.

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