--- title: TryHackMe — Simple CTF: The Note That Gave Everything Away description: A walkthrough of the TryHackMe Simple CTF room covering three stages: anonymous FTP access revealing a note about weak passwords, exploiting CVE-2019-9053... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/tryhackme-simple-ctf-the-note-that-gave-everything-away-8aiksehw2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: TryHackMe — Simple CTF: The Note That Gave Everything Away | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the TryHackMe Simple CTF room covering three stages: anonymous FTP access revealing a note about weak passwords, exploiting CVE-2019-9053... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/tryhackme-simple-ctf-the-note-that-gave-everything-away-8aiksehw2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8AiKsehW2.png og:image:alt: TryHackMe — Simple CTF: The Note That Gave Everything Away 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. # TryHackMe — Simple CTF: The Note That Gave Everything Away **[InfoSec Write-ups](https://daily.dev/sources/infosecwriteups)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of the TryHackMe Simple CTF room covering three stages: anonymous FTP access revealing a note about weak passwords, exploiting CVE-2019-9053 (blind SQL injection in CMS Made Simple 2.2.8) to extract credentials, and privilege escalation via a sudo-enabled vim binary using a GTFOBins shell escape to gain root access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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