Compromising Signal’s Contact Discovery Enclave

Author: Nihal, V12 Published: August 26, 2026 Source: https://v12.sh/blog/signal Summary Researchers at V12 report two critical object-lifetime vulnerabilities in Signal’s Contact Discovery Service (CDSI) that let the untrusted host server break the Intel SGX enclave boundary the service relies on for privacy. CDSI lets a Signal client learn which of its phone contacts use Signal … Read more

Escaping Google Cloud Application Integration Sandbox: Straight into Borg

Author: nopnop (@__nopnop) Published: August 26, 2026 Source: https://nopnop.pro/2026/08/26/escaping-google-cloud-application-integration-sandbox/ Summary Security researcher nopnop documents a sandbox-escape vulnerability, CVE-2025-0982, in Google Cloud’s Application Integration service. The service’s JavaScript task feature ran customer code on the Rhino engine (a Java-based JavaScript interpreter), and a weakness in its custom Java sandbox let the author break out and execute … Read more

45M Weekly Downloads at Risk: Next.js CVE-2026-75604 (CVSS 9.0) Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Author: Do Son (SecurityOnline.info) Published: August 26, 2026 Source: https://securityonline.info/nextjs-rce-vulnerability/ Summary Vercel has patched two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in Next.js, the widely used full-stack JavaScript framework. The primary bug, CVE-2026-75604 (CVSS 9.0), is a Windows-only path traversal that can lead to RCE; a second flaw in the image-optimization path (CVSS 9.5) allows … Read more

Two bytes to RCE: chaining rift + PoolSlip into an ASLR-independent nginx 1.30.0 exploit

Author: y198 (published on the Verichains blog) Published: June 6, 2026 Source: https://blog.verichains.io/p/two-bytes-to-rce-chaining-rift-poolslip Summary This Verichains writeup chains two separately disclosed nginx rewrite-engine memory-corruption bugs — CVE-2026-42945 (“rift”), a heap-overflow write primitive, and CVE-2026-9256 (“PoolSlip”), a heap over-read leak primitive — into a single remote code execution exploit against nginx 1.30.0 that works with ASLR … Read more

AWS CloudGoat EC2 SSRF Exploitation

Author: Raj Chandel (published on Hacking Articles) Published: April 22, 2026 Source: https://www.hackingarticles.in/aws-cloudgoat-ec2-ssrf-exploitation/ Summary This Hacking Articles tutorial walks through the ec2_ssrf scenario in CloudGoat, Rhino Security Labs’ open-source “vulnerable by design” AWS training framework. It is a CTF-style, hands-on lab rather than a vulnerability disclosure — there is no CVE. The scenario chains a … Read more

AWS: IAM UpdateLoginProfile Abuse

Author: Raj Chandel (published on Hacking Articles) Published: January 16, 2026 Source: https://www.hackingarticles.in/aws-iam-updateloginprofile-abuse/ Summary This Hacking Articles tutorial demonstrates an AWS IAM privilege-escalation technique based on the iam:UpdateLoginProfile permission: a low-privileged IAM user who is allowed to call UpdateLoginProfile against a higher-privileged user can reset that user’s AWS Console password and then sign in as … Read more

AWS: IAM AssumeRole Privilege Escalation

Author: Fatima Aziz (published on Hacking Articles) Published: July 12, 2025 Source: https://www.hackingarticles.in/aws-iam-assumerole-privilege-escalation/ Summary This Hacking Articles tutorial demonstrates an AWS IAM privilege-escalation technique driven by misconfiguration rather than a software flaw: a low-privileged IAM user can assume a highly privileged IAM role when that role’s trust policy is written too permissively. By calling sts:AssumeRole … Read more

AWS: IAM CreateAccessKey Privilege Escalation

Author: Fatima Aziz (published on Hacking Articles) Published: July 16, 2025 Source: https://www.hackingarticles.in/aws-iam-createaccesskey-privilege-escalation/ Summary This Hacking Articles tutorial demonstrates a well-known AWS IAM privilege-escalation technique that stems from misconfiguration rather than any software flaw: a low-privileged IAM user who has been granted the iam:CreateAccessKey permission on other users can mint a fresh access key for … Read more

Open-Source Intelligence or OSINT: You Can’t Hide on Telegram!

Author: OTW, Hackers-Arise Published: February 20, 2025 Source: https://hackers-arise.com/open-source-intelligence-or-osint-you-cant-hide-on-telegram/ Summary This Hackers-Arise article challenges the common belief that Telegram provides anonymity, walking through open-source intelligence (OSINT) techniques used to identify and de-anonymize Telegram users and to locate information across the platform. It is an educational OSINT/reconnaissance piece rather than a vulnerability writeup — there is … Read more

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Gathering Information on a WhatsApp Account

Author: aircorridor (AirCorridor), Hackers-Arise contributor Published: March 7, 2026 Source: https://hackers-arise.com/open-source-intelligence-osint-gathering-information-on-a-whatsapp-account/ Summary This Hackers-Arise tutorial demonstrates the open-source WhatsApp-OSINT tool for gathering publicly available account metadata about a WhatsApp user starting only from a phone number. It is an OSINT/reconnaissance walkthrough for security practitioners rather than a vulnerability writeup — there is no CVE, no … Read more