Why Would You Use A Reverse SSH Port Forwarding

Moving laterally in the target network.

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Imagine a situation where you’ve obtained a shell on a target machine/victim host. You’re looking around for interesting files and you find a PostgreSQL database config file. The file contains something like below:

tokyolab—server { 
  db { 
    url = "jdbc:postgresql://tokyolab—db:5432/postgres"
    appPassword =…