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Gain Privileges Using Broken Access Control

In this lab, you'll practice exploiting broken access controls. When you're finished, you'll have successfully navigated a rogue application, elevated privileges, and uncovered hidden data.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
2h 15m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Analyze Authentication and Role-Based Access Controls

    In this challenge, you will investigate how the application manages user authentication and roles. You will review the process, data being transferred, and look for weaknesses.

  3. Challenge

    Compare Sitemaps and Exploit Role-Based Access Control

    Look at the site from the perspective of two different roles, to understand what can and cannot be accessed from each. Explore how the controls are implemented and then exploit a vulnerability.

  4. Challenge

    Escalate Privileges and Exploit Vulnerabilities

    Your goal is to exploit the Access Control vulnerabilities that were discovered in the previous challenges. You will escalate privileges to access otherwise restricted resources.

  5. Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Lee Allen is a penetration tester by trade. Lee has authored four books about penetration testing and has created several Pluralsight courses.

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