UnitedCTF 2024 - IT Portal

So, I recently attended UnitedCTF 2024, and got a chance to get through some of the challenges. IT Portal involved some new ground for me, namely working with Paramiko to get data into and out of a custom TUI. I also had some thoughts on the security implications of the portal as written. Here's the writeup!

(If you’re wondering why it’s on dev.to and not here, I can basically copy paste Markdown into there — also, the code formatting is one-stop.)

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