knock-knock

Description

Knock knock? Who's there? Another pastebin!!

index.js

const crypto = require('crypto');

class Database {
  constructor() {
    this.notes = [];
    this.secret = `secret-${crypto.randomUUID}`;
  }

  createNote({ data }) {
    const id = this.notes.length;
    this.notes.push(data);
    return {
      id,
      token: this.generateToken(id),
    };
  }

  getNote({ id, token }) {
    if (token !== this.generateToken(id)) return { error: 'invalid token' };
    if (id >= this.notes.length) return { error: 'note not found' };
    return { data: this.notes[id] };
  }

  generateToken(id) {
    return crypto
      .createHmac('sha256', this.secret)
      .update(id.toString())
      .digest('hex');
  }
}

const db = new Database();
db.createNote({ data: process.env.FLAG });

const express = require('express');
const app = express();

app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
app.use(express.static('public'));

app.post('/create', (req, res) => {
  const data = req.body.data ?? 'no data provided.';
  const { id, token } = db.createNote({ data: data.toString() });
  res.redirect(`/note?id=${id}&token=${token}`);
});

app.get('/note', (req, res) => {
  const { id, token } = req.query;
  const note = db.getNote({
    id: parseInt(id ?? '-1'),
    token: (token ?? '').toString(),
  });
  if (note.error) {
    res.send(note.error);
  } else {
    res.send(note.data);
  }
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
  console.log('listening on port 3000');
});

Dockerfile

FROM node:17.4.0-buster-slim

RUN mkdir -p /app

WORKDIR /app

COPY package.json .

RUN yarn

COPY . .

USER node

CMD ["node", "index.js"]

Solution

A programming error lies in the fact that crypto.randomUUID (the function) is used as the secret, instead of calling the function.

const crypto = require('crypto');

class Database {
  constructor() {
    this.notes = [];
    this.secret = `secret-${crypto.randomUUID}`;
    console.log(this.secret);
  }

Therefore, the secret is actually:

secret-function randomUUID(options) {
  if (options !== undefined)
    validateObject(options, 'options');
  const {
    disableEntropyCache = false,
  } = options || {};

  validateBoolean(disableEntropyCache, 'options.disableEntropyCache');

  return disableEntropyCache ? getUnbufferedUUID() : getBufferedUUID();
}

Therefore, we just have to generate the token for id=0, which is the same every time.

console.log(db.generateToken(0));

The flag is dice{1_d00r_y0u_d00r_w3_a11_d00r_f0r_1_d00r}