Cybersecurity spotlight on bug bounty researcher @imrerad
As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the top performing security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty...
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As we wrap up Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team is excited to spotlight one of the top performing security researchers who participates in the GitHub Security Bug Bounty...
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From object transition to RCE in the Chrome renderer
In this post, I’ll exploit CVE-2024-5830, a type confusion bug in v8, the Javascript engine of Chrome that I reported in May 2024 as bug 342456991. The bug was fixed in version 126.0.6478.56/57. This...
View ArticleKicking off Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Researcher spotlights and...
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a global initiative that highlights the importance of protecting our digital work. At GitHub, security is the core of how we operate. We’re proud to participate and...
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Attacking browser extensions
Browser extensions first became mainstream in the early 2000s with their adoption by Firefox and Chromium and their popularity has been growing ever since. Nowadays, it is common for even the average...
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CodeQL zero to hero part 4: Gradio framework case study
Gradio is a Python web framework for demoing machine learning applications, which in the past few years has exploded in popularity. In this blog, you’ll will follow along with the process, in which I...
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Uncovering GStreamer secrets
In this blog post, I’ll show the results of my recent security research on GStreamer, the open source multimedia framework at the core of GNOME’s multimedia functionality. I’ll also go through the...
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Announcing CodeQL Community Packs
We are excited to introduce the new CodeQL Community Packs, a comprehensive set of queries and models designed to enhance your code analysis capabilities. These packs are tailored to augment the...
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Attacks on Maven proxy repositories
As someone who’s been breaking the security of Java applications for many years, I was always curious about the supply chain attacks on Java libraries. In 2019, I accidentally discovered an arbitrary...
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Cybersecurity researchers: Digital detectives in a connected world
Have you ever considered yourself a detective at heart? Cybersecurity researchers are digital detectives, uncovering vulnerabilities before malicious actors exploit them. To succeed, they adopt the...
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