In our final ksmbd research post, @sine provides a detailed walkthrough for exploiting a local privilege escalation vulnerability. If you're interested in learning more about exploitation on modern systems - check it out!
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is dumb. Here are some alternatives.
No Vendor November Do some free shit to improve your posture. You know your users, systems and business better than they do.
Defaults December Security by design and default deny.
Micropatches Released for Windows Storage Spoofing Vulnerability (CVE-2025-49760)
https://blog.0patch.com/2025/10/micropatches-released-for-windows.html
Crafting a Full Exploit RCE from a Crash in Autodesk Revit RFA File Parsing: Trend ZDI researcher Simon Zuckerbraun shows how to go from a crash to a full exploit - & he provides you tools to do the same, including his technique used to get ROP execution. https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/blog/2025/10/6/crafting-a-full-exploit-rce-from-a-crash-in-autodesk-revit-rfa-file-parsing
Bash a newline: Exploiting SSH via ProxyCommand, again (CVE-2025-61984) https://dgl.cx/2025/10/bash-a-newline-ssh-proxycommand-cve-2025-61984
We just posted our AttackerKB @rapid7 Analysis for the recent Cisco ASA 0day chain; CVE-2025-20362 and CVE-2025-20333. The auth bypass appears to be a patch bypass of an older 2018 vuln. The buffer overflow is in a Lua endpoint, but unsafe native code operations allow a buffer to be overflowed and memory corruption to occur. Full technical root cause analysis here: https://attackerkb.com/topics/Szq5u0xgUX/cve-2025-20362/rapid7-analysis
Just learned how relocations within a binary work:
I wonder if Microsoft secretly wants everyone to switch to Linux. There are certainly fewer reasons to stick to Windows every day: https://www.theverge.com/news/793579/microsoft-windows-11-local-account-bypass-workaround-changes
I am constantly feeling like parents have to take daily Alignment checks during Autumn Snot Season. Checks are administered by daycare/school staff.
I'm gonna need an alignment chart for this 😄
Well, Well, Well. It’s Another Day. (Oracle E-Business Suite Pre-Auth RCE Chain - CVE-2025-61882) https://labs.watchtowr.com/well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882well-well-well-its-another-day-oracle-e-business-suite-pre-auth-rce-chain-cve-2025-61882/
I love people saying AI helps with the bullshit stuff. Nobody asking why the bullshit exists in first place and how to get rid of it LOL