Double Fried — GPN CTF 2026

A pcap leaks a flag one character per syslog packet in scrambled order, and sorting by each packet’s Message ID field reassembles the flag.

June 5, 2026 · 2 min · 355 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Paradise Nut — GPN CTF 2026

Abusing pnut-sh’s C-to-shell codegen, where a C local named REPLY aliases the tainted shell $REPLY from gets() and detonates command execution via bash arithmetic to run the setuid nl on /flag.

June 5, 2026 · 3 min · 492 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d

Volatile Component — GPN CTF 2026

Exploiting a GitHub Actions workflow that interpolates an untrusted issue body into a run block, gaining RCE to dump the FLAG secret from the Runner.Worker process memory and exfiltrating it as hex to bypass log masking.

June 5, 2026 · 2 min · 370 words · Th3B0yWh0L1v3d