holiday-hack-challenge-2023

SANS Holiday Hack Challenge

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Objective

Over on Steampunk Island, Bow Ninecandle is having trouble opening a padlock. Do some research and see if you can help open it!

Conversations

Bow Ninecandle

Initial conversation:

Approach

Spend a long time putting the correct pressure on a virtual Faster lock to open it, or mess with the javascript :)

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Alternate approach

As an alternate approach, there are several ways you can interact with the javascript. One simple approach is to simply right click on the lock, click inspect, and in the console type lock_numbers to get the output:

{
    "first_number": 19,
    "second_number": 37,
    "third_number": 39,
    "bad_third_number": 19,
    "first_number_sticky": 14,
    "guess_number1": 9,
    "guess_number2": 4
}

Entering the combination 19-37-39:

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