Becoming the Hacker

Container breakout

We have access to the container's shell through the Meterpreter session and through that session, we can talk to other application containers hosted on the same machine. In the earlier Nmap scan of the Docker network, the 8022 service also stood out from the rest. As attackers, services with ports in the 8000 range are always interesting because underprotected development web servers can be found there. This particular port could be an exploitable web application and may give us more access than we currently have.

The Nmap scan report for the content_ssh_1 container also had the SSH port open, but this service is typically harder to exploit, short of brute-forcing for weak credentials:

Nmap scan report for content_ssh_1.content_default ...