Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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The Sandbox That Wasn't: Reversing CVE-2026-12537 in Gemini CLI
A CVE dropped against Gemini CLI with a 10.0 score and a two-line advisory that explained nothing. So I cloned the repo, read the patch backwards, and reconstructed how a .env file in a pull request turns into code execution on your CI runner — before the sandbox ever starts.
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Crashing Node.js with 40 Lines of JavaScript — A Memory Corruption Story
How I found a TOCTOU race condition in Node.js's native UTF-8 decoder that causes heap corruption via SharedArrayBuffer, built a working crash PoC, reported it to HackerOne — and watched it get closed as Informative.
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Solving YesWeHack Dojo #49 — How Two Dashes and a Dash-R Broke a Secret Manager
A detailed walkthrough of how I solved YesWeHack's Dojo #49 Secret Manager challenge by chaining two glob injection tricks — a recursive copy flag and a grep option terminator — to exfiltrate secrets from a protected directory in a single HTTP request
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How I Fixed False Positives in Dalfox XSS Scanner (Issue #884)
A deep dive into contributing to Dalfox — fixing false positive XSS alerts on JSON API endpoints, the mistakes I made, and the proper fix.
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Access secrets via s3 bucket versioning
In this lab, we will be solving an lab with an attack vector through a s3 bucket versioning feature and through that we can able to exfil the secrets and elevating further more
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Loot Public EBS Snapshots
In this lab, we will be solving an lab on understanding what ebs snapshots are and there misconfigurations....
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Leverage leaked credentials for pwnage
Finding leaked AWS access keys in a GitHub .env file, using them to enumerate the account, and pivoting into Amazon RDS to escalate and capture the flag
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Plunder Public RDS Snapshots
Enumerating publicly exposed Amazon RDS snapshots from just an AWS account ID, restoring one into my own account, and dumping the database to recover the flag
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Identify the AWS Account ID from a Public S3 Bucket
Getting to know about how we can able to fecth a AWS account ID from a publicly available s3 bucket
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Uncover Secrets in CodeCommit and Docker
In this lab, we will see how the leaked credentials through dockerhub can be leveraged atmost and more further
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Reveal Hidden risks using Securityhub
Walkthrough of exploring AWS securityhub and a simulation activity to identify an issue that lead to some interesting findings
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Solving Intigriti's May 2024 XSS Challenge — PhpSpreadsheet Formula Injection to XSS
A detailed walkthrough of how I solved Intigriti's May 2024 XSS challenge by exploiting a 2nd-order formula injection vulnerability in PhpSpreadsheet's calculateFormula() to achieve Cross-Site Scripting
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Hacking Porn and Dating Sites - A Theme-Based Bug Bounty Approach
An Individual research on bugbounty programs that I took an unique approach on choosing porn industry based programs which paid me pretty much..
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Solving Intigriti's April 2024 XSS Challenge — postMessage, Race Conditions, and a Sneaky iframe Sandbox
A walkthrough of how I solved Intigriti's April 2024 monthly XSS challenge — hardcoded creds in the DOM, an iframe sandbox misconfiguration, and a postMessage handler with no origin check that turned into a clean XSS
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Breach in the Cloud - Cloudtrial challenge
This is a challenge from pwnedlabs where I've been provided with the cloudtrial logs and from there I've to do log analysis and trying to reproduce the attack from the attacker perspective
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SSRF to Pwned
Lab from pwnedlabs where we have provided with a webserver and we are gonna look into how we can leverage it to SSRF
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Big IAM Challenge - Wiz CTF Challenge
IAM Challenge from Wiz where we will be given an IAM rules and need to identify misconfiguration and exploit it to get a flag
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A story of Default wordlist in Dirsearch to 20k INR Bounty
My First Bug in my bugbounty journey where I took an approach of guy who solves the CTF... Unfortunately it worked and I found some sensitive files which lead to a bounty