Leak some secret configuration variables
Difficulty: Medium
UnicornBox stores some configuration variables in a config.yml
file in a folder separate from the users’ files: The layout of the server storage is as follows:
site/
files/
foo1.txt
foo2.txt
...
config/
config.yml
Your task: Gain access to the secrets stored within config.yml
.
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