HTB Planning Machine Walkthrough | Easy HackTheBox Guide for Beginners

A detailed walkthrough of exploiting the HTB Planning machine, featuring a vulnerable Grafana 11.0.0 instance affected by CVE-2024-9264. The guide covers enumeration with nmap and ffuf, exploiting the Grafana vulnerability for remote code execution, obtaining SSH access through discovered credentials, and achieving privilege escalation via a cron job management interface. The tutorial emphasizes explaining each command and technique for beginners learning penetration testing.