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A daily CTF challenge with a fun new puzzle every day

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Today's Challenge

Submissions (latest 3)

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May 22, 9:00 PM

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Is this your first CTF? Let's begin by tackling the first challenge released on Daily AlpacaHack.

AlpacaHack 2100

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May 2026

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shiragi

Misc

Easy🌱

128 solves

28

serioton

Misc

Medium

77 solves

29

minaminao

permission denied

Misc

Hard

80 solves

30

minaminao

permission denied 2

Misc

Medium

81 solves

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admin

Misc

Welcome🌱

243 solves

2

tchen

Alpaca Rangers 2

Web

Easy🌱

206 solves

3

pppp4649

Crypto

Easy🌱

153 solves

4

hiikunz

Web

Medium

144 solves

5

serioton

Misc

Medium

114 solves

6

trimscash

Pwn

Easy🌱

144 solves

7

minaminao

permission denied 3

Misc

Medium

112 solves

8

baumroll1234

Vending Machine

Misc

Easy🌱

174 solves

9

hiikunz

Crypto

Medium

114 solves

10

rsk0315

Bounds Checking

Pwn

Hard

84 solves

11

serioton

Rev

Easy🌱

122 solves

12

minaminao

Misc

Medium

101 solves

13

tchen

Super Short Python Golf

Misc

Medium

115 solves

14

minaminao

Equation Cipher

Crypto

Medium

99 solves

15

tan90909090

curl as a service

Web

Misc

Medium

109 solves

16

k0080

Please Link This

Pwn

Hard

75 solves

17

tan90909090

curl as a service 2

Web

Misc

Hard

86 solves

18

shiragi

Flag for Switch

Web

Easy🌱

150 solves

19

pppp4649

Crypto

Medium

99 solves

20

tchen

Web

Medium

103 solves

21

kakur41

Python:Impossible

Misc

Medium

99 solves

22

nozokare

Time Travelers' OTP

Web

Medium

71 solves

23

minaminao

Crypto

Hard

16 solves

24

Planned topicCUDA

Rev

Hard

25

Planned topicPath Traversal

Misc

Easy🌱

26

Planned topicRSA

Crypto

Medium

27

Planned topicCSP

Web

Medium

28

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Planned topicRSA

Crypto

Medium

30

Planned topicXSS

Web

Hard

31

Planned topicStack

Pwn

Hard

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ja

2026/05/20 16:03

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ko

2026/05/20 15:17

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Alpaca Rangers 2

Topic: File ReadReleased: May 2, 2026

206 solves

Easy🌱

by

tchen

Tags

Alpaca Rangers is back! (Note: You don't necessarily have to solve Alpaca Rangers first)

Beginner Hint

The goal of this challenge is to read the contents of /flag.txt
Is the replace function enough to prevent directory traversal attacks?

alpaca-rangers-2.tar.gz

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