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Level 12 → Level 13

Group Privilege · 700 pts · +50 first-blood bonus

First Blood Available

Mission

This challenge contains a user who is a member of a Linux group that grants effective control over a local service. The service is powerful enough that membership in the group is equivalent to being root. To solve the challenge, read /flag.

Starting toolkit (you may need more)

groupsdocker

Why this matters in 2026

Certain Linux groups are effectively root by design. Adding a developer to one of them for convenience during dev is how real production incidents happen. Every sysadmin should be able to list these groups by heart.

Mitigation era: 2026-04 · rotation policy: levels may be refreshed as CVEs are patched out of distro defaults.

How to reach this level

Use the password for phantom12 that you captured on the previous level, then:

ssh phantom12@phantom.breachlab.org -p 2223

SSH endpoint is being provisioned. Follow @BreachLab for launch announcement.

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