Open Build Service, one year later: command execution through Mercurial argument injection
In March 2025 we published an analysis of a remote code execution vulnerability in Open Build Service (OBS), tracked as CVE-2024-22033. A little over a year later we went back to the same attack surface and found a second, distinct flaw of the same family. It has now been reported to the openSUSE security team and fixed…
HTTP Request Smuggling in Hiawatha - CVE-2026-51785
As part of our ongoing research into request smuggling, we identified an HTTP Request Smuggling vulnerability (CWE-444) in Hiawatha ≤ 12.1. Hiawatha is an open-source, security-focused web server for Unix-like systems, used to serve websites and host web applications.
Remote code execution in CentOS Web Panel - CVE-2025-70951
As part of our ongoing research into web hosting control panels, we recently published an analysis of Control Web Panel (CWP), a widely used open-source administration panel designed to manage web servers running…
Detecting Jira & Confluence Versions and Mapping Known CVEs
This blog post presents a tool that identifies the version of the Atlassian Jira or Confluence application and maps the identified version to a local CVE database. The detection is primarily based on the presence of…
Remote code execution in aaPanel - CVE-2025-48702
aaPanel is a free and open-source web hosting control panel designed to simplify server management for Linux-based systems. It provides a graphical interface to manage web servers, websites,…
Remote code execution in CentOS Web Panel - CVE-2025-48703
CentOS Web Panel (CWP) is a free web hosting control panel used to manage servers based on CentOS and other RPM-based distributions. CWP was first introduced in 2013 as a free, open-source web hosting control panel…
Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions - OpenSUSE Open Build Service
Open Build Service (OBS) is an open-source distribution development platform provided by openSUSE. It allows developers to manage the whole packaging process in order to build a package from a simple software source and…
Supply Chain Attacks on Linux distributions - Fedora Pagure
As discussed in the meta-article, we picked Pagure from the Fedora Apps Directory and already had a technical approach in mind. A software forge is likely to be a good target for an argument injection: we can expect the…
Gadget chains in Laravel
As we have seen in the previous article about wordpress gadgets, very simple gadget chains can be found in major projects. But sometimes finding popchain may be more difficult. This article…
Gadget chains in Wordpress
Exploiting an unserialization vulnerability in WordPress never was a small issue. Unlike other PHP frameworks, and until very recently, WordPress was not known for hosting gadget chains.