🎯 What You'll Learn
- Identify and exploit SSRF to internal services
- Detect and exploit template injection
- Pivot to cloud metadata and internal APIs
- Chain server-side flaws to RCE
Overview
When a back end fetches or renders attacker-controlled input, you can pivot into internal networks or run code. This lab covers SSRF, SSTI and insecure server-side processing end to end.
Core Topics
- SSRF discovery and filter bypass
- Template engine fingerprinting
- Cloud metadata abuse
- Out-of-band techniques
Prerequisites
A working KaliRange lab environment and comfort with the Linux command line.
Recommended Workflow
- Spin up the target in your KaliRange lab environment and confirm connectivity.
- Enumerate the target thoroughly before touching any exploit — information first.
- Reproduce each technique by hand so you understand why it works, not just the command.
- Capture evidence (commands, output, screenshots) as you go.
- Write a short note on how a defender would detect or prevent what you just did.
Only ever run these techniques against systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. Practise inside your own KaliRange lab.
Your Goal
Work through every task in your own lab, document your findings as you would on a real engagement, then note the defensive takeaways.
Ready to practise. Work through the steps above at your own pace, then move on to a related lab.