Endoscopy Machine Shell Access

I just remembered that many years ago, in a Red Team, we managed to execute code on an endoscopy machine that was in use. We literally beaconed from someone's arsehole. (I am writing a book about anecdotes from the last 10 years and was writing about this one. TL;DR; the endoscopy machine had a Django web application with debug mode that leaked the connection string to a MSSQL. xp_cmd shell was enabled, so GG & WP.)

A screenshot of a post recounts a red-team operation that gained code execution on an active endoscopy machine. The punchline is the absurdity of obtaining a shell and beaconing from inside someone's body, turning a serious cybersecurity exploit into a grotesque anecdote.

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