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Privilege Escalation

Espionage Intelligence Writeup

Summary

Espionage Intelligence was an HTB CTF challenge centered around abusing an Operator Wiki RAG pipeline that ranked documents by semantic similarity while failing to properly enforce clearance boundaries. Starting with a standard HUMINT operator account, the objective was to perform reconnaissance of the semantic space, extract sensitive information useful for lateral movement, escalate privileges, and ultimately access advanced leader-only agentic analytics.