Author: alfamyk

There are 2 files in the homedirectory: passwords.old and passwords.new. The password for the next level is in passwords.new and is the only line that has been changed between passwords.old and passwords.new

The credentials for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to a port on localhost in the range 31000 to 32000. First find out which of these ports have a server listening on them. Then find out which of those speak SSL and which don’t. There is only 1 server that will give the next credentials, the others will simply send back to you whatever you send to it.

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30001 on localhost using SSL encryption.

The password for the next level can be retrieved by submitting the password of the current level to port 30000 on localhost.

The password for the next level is stored in /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14 and can only be read by user bandit14. For this level, you don’t get the next password, but you get a private SSH key that can be used to log into the next level. 

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which is a hexdump of a file that has been repeatedly compressed.

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, where all lowercase (a-z) and uppercase (A-Z) letters have been rotated by 13 positions

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt, which contains base64 encoded data

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt in one of the few human-readable strings, beginning with several ‘=’ characters.

The password for the next level is stored in the file data.txt and is the only line of text that occurs only once