--- title: HTB: Abducted | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Abducted', a Linux box exploited through multiple chained vulnerabilities. The initial foothold uses CVE-2026-4480, a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-abducted-7nhys9rk3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTB: Abducted | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Abducted', a Linux box exploited through multiple chained vulnerabilities. The initial foothold uses CVE-2026-4480, a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-abducted-7nhys9rk3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7nHys9Rk3.png og:image:alt: HTB: Abducted og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # HTB: Abducted **[0xdf hacks stuff](https://daily.dev/sources/0xdf)** · 21 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Abducted', a Linux box exploited through multiple chained vulnerabilities. The initial foothold uses CVE-2026-4480, a command injection in Samba's printing subsystem where the print job name (%J substitution) is passed to the shell unescaped, allowing RCE as nobody. Lateral movement to scott is achieved by decoding an obfuscated rclone backup config password. Access to marcus is gained by abusing a Samba share configured with wide links and force user, allowing an SSH key to be planted in marcus's home directory via SMB symlink traversal. Root is obtained by writing a malicious ExecStartPre directive to the smbd systemd drop-in directory (writable by the operators group) and restarting smbd via a polkit rule that permits operators to manage that specific service. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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