# Main idea
It is simple web app on python with single route `/execute`:
![](../../attachments/Pasted%20image%2020240115133516.png)
It is a form with one parameter `code`.
# Solution
If our payload in `code` parameter passes the regular expression it will execute python code.
Lets break down regular expression to execute our code.
- `.*` : This part of the pattern matches any character (except a newline) 0 or more times.- `[\x20-\x7E]` : This is a character set that matches any character in the range from `\x20` to `\x7E`. This range includes all printable ASCII characters.- `+` : This means one or more of the preceding element. In this case, it refers to one or more of any character in the range `\x20` to `\x7E`.- `.*` : Again, this part of the pattern matches any character (except a newline) 0 or more times.
So, the entire regular expression `".*[\x20-\x7E]+.*"` will match any string that has one or more printable ASCII characters anywhere, except first and last character.
According to this information we can crate our payload.
Solution script:
```pythonimport requests
# url = "https://uoftctf-no-code.chals.io/execute"url = "http://localhost:1337/execute"
r = requests.post(url, data={'code': b'\nopen("flag.txt", "r").read()\n'})
print(r.text)```
Our payload passes the regex beacause first and last charracters are new line characters `\n`.
And boom we get the flag.
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