A crafted MeshCore node name on a LoRa mesh could compromise a Home Assistant instance running meshcore-card, with an XSS chaining to remote root on the HA host. Some other sites are vulnerable too, likely along with MeshCore-Home-Assistant-Panel-v2 mxsasha.eu/posts/meshco...

Rooting Home Assistant through MeshCore: XSS attacks with a LoRa node name

A crafted MeshCore node name could compromise any Home Assistant instance running meshcore-card as soon as someone viewed a dashboard with that card. MeshCore …

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A RIPE Atlas probe could have been enough to hijack a RIPE NCC user's next login. Full member portal access, including RPKI and the RIPE Database. Session fixation in RIPE NCC's SSO: token not rotated on login. mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-n...

RIPE NCC session fixation: poaching logins with an Atlas probe

RIPE NCC’s single sign-on did not rotate session tokens on login, leaving 12000 Atlas probe hosts in a position to compromise other RIPE NCC users’ …

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RIPE NCC gave over 1000 third parties the ability to steal session tokens from any logged-in user. RIPE NCC had placed strangers under the same domain as their most critical systems. Full member portal access from one link click. mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-n...

1000 third parties could have stolen RIPE NCC session tokens - by design

The RIPE NCC made its all-powerful single sign-on tokens available to over 1000 third parties. From a single link click, any logged-in RIPE NCC user would leak …

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I found a chain of vulnerabilities at RIPE NCC, one of five RPKI trust anchors. One click on an innocuous link could disconnect a network from the internet. Entry points: debugging fields in DNS and crafted TLS certificates, escalating to RPKI Dashboard and RIPE Database mxsasha.eu/posts/ripe-n...

Taking down a European network with a TLS certificate: my RIPE NCC RPKI exploit chain

One click on a malicious, but not suspicious, link. That is all it could take for a network operator to get disconnected from the internet, through a chain of …

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I have been working on a set of vulnerabilities for 14(!) months, but the end is in sight! Just sent the draft blogs to the vendor for review, got € 3200 in bug bounties, and in two weeks I should be able to publish my attack chain on critical internet infrastructure 🕵️‍♀️

Are you still only using two factor authentication? I'm way ahead of you with my 7 factor authentication 🔐

Rooting OpenWRT from the parking lot: I discovered an XSS in the OpenWRT SSID scan page, that can be chained to remote root access 👾 Write-up and demo: mxsasha.eu/posts/openwr... CVE-2026-32721, fixed in 24.10.6 / 25.12.1

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Django people, what do we use these days for simple decent looking web interfaces, with limited effort? Some forms, a text page, a few tables, etc. Is it still Bootstrap? Is it Tailwind with some additional things (seems very bare on its own)? Easy integration with Django form rendering is a plus.