🎃 Spooky SSC CTF 🎃

📁 Directory Traversal

Sometimes web servers are misconfigured and allow directory listing. This can expose sensitive files and directories!

Your Mission: Find a directory that reveals hidden files!

This is dangerous because it can expose:

💡 Challenge Overview

Goal: Find a directory that reveals hidden files.

Difficulty: Beginner - Directory enumeration basics!

Time to complete: 2-5 minutes

Key Learning: Some servers allow directory browsing!

📁 Directory Traversal Challenge

Web servers sometimes allow you to browse directories like folders on your computer. This can reveal sensitive files!

🛠️ How to Solve This Challenge:

  1. Try common directory paths:
    • /admin/
    • /backup/
    • /secret/
    • /uploads/
  2. Look for directory listing - Some servers show all files in a directory
  3. Check for interesting files - flag.txt, secret.txt, etc.

🔍 What You're Learning:

  • Directory Enumeration - Finding hidden directories
  • Information Disclosure - When servers reveal too much
  • Web Server Configuration - How servers handle directory access

🔍 Common directories to check:

Challenge: Find a directory with listing enabled and locate the flag file!

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