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chall

chall

Upon opening the challenge URL, we can see that the application uses pdflatex to compile the LaTeX code supplied by the user.

webpage

In the Typesetting log, we can see that \write18 is enabled.

write18 enabled

Let’s see the latex documentation.

latex docs
latex docs

Let’s try \immediate\write18{cat /flag.txt} assuming the flag is located at /flag.txt as the previous challenge Merged also has flag at the same location.

flag

We got the flag :)

I did this exact same thing in overleaf.com but it was a docker container and that docker image is isolated and only contain the files related to that particular project. so no use :(

As I already did this in overleaf, I was able to solve this challenge easily and quickly.