Forge the Cookie
A session cookie is encrypted with AES-CBC. You don't have the key. You don't need it.
A service encrypts session cookies with AES-128-CBC before handing them to the browser. The plaintext structure never changes: userid=9001;admin=false, PKCS#7-padded out to two 16-byte blocks.
You want admin=false to become admin=true! (same length, so no padding shifts). You don't have the key, and you're not going to break AES — you're going to exploit CBC's block-chaining structure instead.
Give your answer as the exact 5 bytes (as hex, no spaces) you'd need to XOR into the right ciphertext block to make that flip happen — that's the flag: cct{those_5_bytes_as_hex}.
userid=9001;admin=false
37eb42a9092951466dffa1e1974d4aa0
247bb25db3cf943bb472ae6de44f2532fc54cbb081f6c2aaa92d98b49df94c1f
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