# VaultSync — Recon Shell (CTF challenge)

> Launch the environment and you land in a LIVE interactive terminal — a foothold on a machine mid-cleanup after a deploy job. No web app to poke: this is a real shell.

Canonical: https://codelivly.com/ctf/challenges/vaultsync-recon-shell

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|---|---|
| Category | Linux Exploitation |
| Difficulty | Easy |
| Points | 400 |
| Estimated time | 30 min |
| Type | Live instance |
| Solves | 86 |
| Author | Codelivly |

Launch the environment and you land in a LIVE interactive terminal — a foothold on a machine mid-cleanup after a deploy job. No web app to poke: this is a real shell. Enumerate the filesystem the way you would on a real box (ls -la, cat, find, grep) to locate the recovered backup and read the flag out of it. The flag is unique to your instance and is NOT in your environment — you have to find it. Enumeration only; nothing to escalate.

## Related

- [All CTF challenges](https://codelivly.com/practice?type=ctf)