--- title: HTB: Visual | daily.dev description: The post discusses how to abuse a Visual Studio build process to achieve remote code execution. It covers setting up a Gitea server, hosting a malicious... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-visual-rx6gntbl0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: HTB: Visual | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses how to abuse a Visual Studio build process to achieve remote code execution. It covers setting up a Gitea server, hosting a malicious... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/htb-visual-rx6gntbl0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rx6GnTbl0.png og:image:alt: HTB: Visual 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: Visual **[0xdf hacks stuff](https://daily.dev/sources/0xdf)** · 27 min read · 7 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The post discusses how to abuse a Visual Studio build process to achieve remote code execution. It covers setting up a Gitea server, hosting a malicious project, and using pre-build commands to execute arbitrary code. The author also explores gaining a shell as a local service and escalating privileges to achieve system-level access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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