“An Exploration of JSON Interoperability Vulnerabilities” by Jake Miller was published last week. It’s an interesting research about differences among JSON libraries that could lead to logic bugs and puts this kind of vulnerability into the map when you do threat analysis. …

Some days ago I was watching 10 Things I Regret About Node.js and the introduction to Deno started with this slide about security. By default a script should run without any network or file system write access It makes sense and specially for the frontend realm where most of the…

Disclaimer: I discovered this vulnerability in February and it was fixed in May 2020 (version 5.10.2 and new branch 6.x) due to the change of the web driver from Zombie.js to puppeteer. Initial research was done as part of my work at Dreamlab Technologies. At work I had to vet…

This is the next post of this serie called “Web scraping considered dangerous”. You can read the previous post here and as an update, my pull request fixing FormRequest.from_response behaviour was merged! This post is again based on scrapy (version 1.6.0) and I’ll show two techniques to leak files from…

Disclaimer: scrapy 1.5.2 has been released on January 22th, to avoid being exploited you must disable telnet console (enabled by default) or upgrade up to 1.5.2 at least. This year the focus of our research will be security in web scraping frameworks. Why? Because it’s important for us. As a…

I’ve made some changes for clarity purposes. Originally it was published in 2014: https://spect.cl/blog/2014/08/exploiting-the-scraper/ As some of you have noticed, the post frequency has been low in last years because I’ve been happily working full-time for more than two years at Scrapinghub, the company behind the popular scrapy framework. …

El año pasado hubo en Chile una charla titulada “Chile Exposed: un puerto para gobernarlos a todos” haciendo referencia al anillo del Señor de los anillos. La charla trataba sobre acceso a recursos compartidos de diversas organizaciones en el puerto 445, por lo que me cuestioné si ese era realmente…

[This post is only available in Spanish because the target audience is in Chile] En el último tiempo, han circulado diversos correos falsos en nombre del SII (Servicio de Impuesto Internos) en el marco de ataques de phishing y distribución de malware. Analizando algunos de ellos, es notorio que se…

This weekend we participated in Metasploit Community CTF and got the 12th place out of 1000 registered teams (but according to organizers, 600 teams logged in). This time our team was small (chcx and me most of the time, deb_security last day) and we got the help from Miguel Mendez…