HTB Previous has been pwned!

Reconnaissance

Host Enumeration

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~]
└─$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
10.129.168.20 previous.htb

Port Scanning

┌──(kali㉿kali)-[~/Desktop/Previous]
└─$ sudo nmap -sC -sV -oA previous 10.129.168.20           
Starting Nmap 7.95 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2025-08-24 17:29 EDT
Nmap scan report for previous.htb (10.129.168.20)
Host is up (0.040s latency).
Not shown: 998 closed tcp ports (reset)
PORT   STATE SERVICE VERSION
22/tcp open  ssh     OpenSSH 8.9p1 Ubuntu 3ubuntu0.13 (Ubuntu Linux; protocol 2.0)
| ssh-hostkey: 
|   256 3e:ea:45:4b:c5:d1:6d:6f:e2:d4:d1:3b:0a:3d:a9:4f (ECDSA)
|_  256 64:cc:75:de:4a:e6:a5:b4:73:eb:3f:1b:cf:b4:e3:94 (ED25519)
80/tcp open  http    nginx 1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-server-header: nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)
|_http-title: PreviousJS
Service Info: OS: Linux; CPE: cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel

Service detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at https://nmap.org/submit/ .
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 13.24 seconds

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