CASE FILE RT-0268 CRM vendor

From a leak in a bot to root access on 22 servers

One leaked password for an internal portal cost the company control over its entire infrastructure. We showed exactly how — the whole chain in a single pentest.

Objective: Break into the CRM vendor's internal infrastructure starting from open sources alone
Path: We started with OSINT: a breach dump contained working employee credentials for the internal portal. An IDOR flaw let us enumerate users — and surfaced a manager account with a default password. Through the portal's settings we uploaded a web shell and entrenched ourselves on the server. There we found an ansible.key — a key granting root access to 22 company servers at once. One leaked low-privileged account meant total control over the vendor's entire infrastructure.
Detected: The user enumeration blended into normal activity, the default-password login raised no alerts, and the web shell landed through a legitimate portal setting

After: The client received not a report but a map of a real attack — from first touch to full takeover. We eliminated the IDOR, disabled default passwords, isolated the Ansible keys and closed the internal portal to external access.

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The pattern in one page

Breach dumps are entry point #1. Working employee passwords circulate in public dumps for years.
IDOR is a map of every user. Enumerating IDs turns one account into a walk through the whole directory.
One Ansible key equals the whole estate. Management SSH keys belong in a secrets vault, not on a web server.

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We can verify	Typical effort
The same path against your estate, under signed ROE	2–4 wks
Detection validation: what your SOC would have seen	included
Retest after fixes, within three months	free

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