--- title: HTB: Orion | daily.dev description: A detailed walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Orion', a Linux box running Craft CMS 5.6.16. The exploit chain starts with CVE-2025-32432, an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTB: Orion | daily.dev og:description: A detailed walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Orion', a Linux box running Craft CMS 5.6.16. The exploit chain starts with CVE-2025-32432, an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/p1pnWvkbH.png og:image:alt: HTB: Orion 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: Orion **[0xdf hacks stuff](https://daily.dev/sources/0xdf)** · 42 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A detailed walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Orion', a Linux box running Craft CMS 5.6.16. The exploit chain starts with CVE-2025-32432, an unauthenticated RCE in Craft's image transform endpoint that abuses an object injection flaw in the Yii2 framework. By poisoning a PHP session file with a crafted URL parameter and using the PhpManager gadget to execute it, a shell is obtained as www-data. Database credentials from the .env file lead to a bcrypt hash crack (password: darkangel) for lateral movement to user 'adam'. Root access is achieved by abusing inetd-served telnet's authentication bypass, smuggling '-f root' through the USER environment variable. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [HTB: Guardian](https://daily.dev/posts/htb-guardian-tkykgwaky) · 0xdf hacks stuff · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [HTB: Era](https://daily.dev/posts/htb-era-imytcy2o7) · 0xdf hacks stuff · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [HackTheBox Writeup \(Walkthrough\)](https://daily.dev/posts/hackthebox-writeup-walkthrough--yi0kszlkw) · InfoSec Write-ups · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"HTB: Orion","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh"},"datePublished":"2026-07-14T15:14:40.704Z","dateModified":"2026-07-14T15:15:06.936Z","description":"A detailed walkthrough of the HackTheBox machine 'Orion', a Linux box running Craft CMS 5.6.16. The exploit chain starts with CVE-2025-32432, an...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--CxzD6vbw--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2005","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"0xdf hacks stuff","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"0xdf hacks stuff","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/16cdada70d5f4fac8b588c53bcf005ff","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/0xdf"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/htb-orion-p1pnwvkbh","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,php","timeRequired":"PT42M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"0xdf hacks stuff","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/0xdf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"HTB: Orion"}]} ```