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A09 · Security Logging and Alerting Fail · Hard

Erase the Evidence

A09 · ≈ 40 min · 0 solves

350POINTS
MISSIONDiscover the weakness independently

Explore the application as a real target: map the exposed functionality, inspect requests and responses, build a working exploit, and recover the rotating flag. If you get stuck, the verified official solution is available below as an optional spoiler.

Rules of engagement

Stay inside the generated lab URL. Use only the synthetic accounts and data in this instance. The main SecOne4all site and external systems are out of scope.

Challenge brief

FLAG REQUIREMENTS

What counts as a valid solve

Goal

A privileged operator can delete immutable security history through a generic CRUD route.

Required interaction

POST /audit/delete.

Completion proof

demonstrate the missing, forged, suppressed, or unprotected operational evidence in the live timeline; the successful workflow returns the current rotating flag.

Session rule

Work only inside your generated lab URL and submit the flag within 40 minutes.

VERIFIED WALKTHROUGH

Official solution

Contains the complete exploitation path. Open it only when you want the spoiler.

Reveal official solutionStep-by-step · verified against the live lab

Official solution · A09 · Erase the Evidence

Objective

A privileged operator can delete immutable security history through a generic CRUD route.

Steps

  1. Start the isolated service and open its operational feature.
  2. Perform the action that should create, protect, correlate, retain, or alert on a security event.
  3. Exercise the logging gap or tampering path: POST /audit/delete; the generic action deletes the entire audit history.
  4. Verify the changed live timeline or alert state returns the rotating flag.
  5. Submit the flag before stopping the lab.

Expected proof

A successful response for audit-log-deletion returns the instance-specific rotating flag. The flag is valid only for the current player and running instance.

Safety boundary

Use only the generated lab URL. No request to the main site, another user, or an external service is part of this solution.