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# Jellyspotters

## Challenge

The leader of the Jellyspotters has hired you to paint them a poster for their convention, using this painting program. Also, the flag is in \~/flag.txt.

nc umbccd.io 4200

Author: nb

## Solution

B64 encoded pickle string is loaded.

![](/files/-M_EDHEdKcZ9JbLJsD0k)

Reference: <https://davidhamann.de/2020/04/05/exploiting-python-pickle/>

We can leverage the `__reduce__` method to call `os.system()` with `cat ~/flag.txt`.

![](/files/-M_EDLFIxeAmp5R2QVsQ)

Passing the b64 encoded string into the input, we get the flag.

![](/files/-M_EDMhpK_7ZD6vNW0JW)


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