Bug Bytes is a weekly newsletter curated by members of the bug bounty community. The first series is curated by Mariem, better known as PentesterLand. Every week, she keeps us up to date with a comprehensive list of write-ups, tools, tutorials and resources.
This issue covers the week from 10 to 17 of January.
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Our favorite 5 hacking items
1. Resource of the week
A Glossary of Blind SSRF Chains & GitHub repo
This is a massive post on exploit chains that help escalate the impact of blind SSRF. This is simply a must see for bug hunters, a new amazing resource by @assetnote.
There is also a GitHub repo. You can contribute with additionl techniques by sending a pull request.
2. Writeups of the week
Finding 0day to hack Apple (Apple, $50,000)
Making Clouds Rain :: Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Office 365 (Microsoft)
There’s a bunch of exceptional findings and excellent writeups that were published this week. Make sure to check out the entire writeups section below. These two are the one that caught my attention the most for their impact and interesting technical details.
@rootxharsh and @iamnoooob got Remote Code Execution on three Apple subdomains by analyzing the CMS they use (Lucee). @steventseeley also popped shells but on Microsoft Office 365 and he also bypassed two different patches for the vulnerability.
3. Tools of the week
OpenAPI Security Scanner & Automating Permission Checks Using OpenAPI Security Scanner?
Remember BBRF, @honoki‘s Python tool for storing/querying bug bounty data in a CouchDB database? I’ve been using it and it is an excellent solution for easily handling assets and scopes. Now it also has a Burp plugin that allows you to add domains/URLs to your database from Burp! Fantastic, right?
The second tool is an innovative scanner for automating authorization tests. Logic flaws are notoriously difficult to automate but @ngalongc manages to do just that! His OpenAPI Security Scanner pointed to an API with a set of credentials monitors for changes in permissions and notifies you if any permissions have changed.
4. Video of the week
@Farah Hawa Talks About Learning How to Code, Javascript, Creating Content, Mentorship and more!
Anyone who thinks it is too late to start bug bounties or they don’t have the right technical background should watch this interview. @Farah_Hawaa shares her story and how she got into Web hacking in a relatively short time. She went from journalism / mass media studies to becoming a hacker, triager for a bug bounty platform and content creator. Such an inspiration!
5. Podcast of the week
Day[0] Episode 60 – Breaking Lock Screens & The Great Vbox Escape
Day[0] is already at episode 60 and I’ve just heard of it! I love that it’s not just about generic InfoSec news but also comments on very technical writeups and topics. A really nice discovery!
Other amazing things we stumbled upon this week
Videos
- BOUNTY THURSDAYS – 2021 + new tools + new stuff = COOL BUGS!
- @d0nutptr demoing his recon tool resync
- Hacking banks with race conditions
- Livestream – Common API bugs + QnA
- Watch me hack a bug bounty target from scratch. #bugbounty #hacking
- How to prevent PHP type juggling vulnerabilities
Podcasts
- Security Now: Where the Plaintext Is – 2021s First Patch Tuesday, Titan Security Key Side-Channel Attack, WhatsApp
- Cloud Security Testing In Aws – Pawel Rzepa – Cloud Security Podcast
- Darknet Diaries Ep 83: NSA Cryptologists
Webinars & Webcasts
Conferences
Tutorials
Medium to advanced
- Flutter based Mac OSX Thick Client SSL Pinning Bypass
- macOS Post-Exploitation Shenanigans with VSCode Extensions
Beginners corner
- Pentesting the ELK Stack
- Authorization Checks Made Easy
- Converting NMAP XML Files to HTML with xsltproc
- Cross-frame Scripting Attacks
- Android Penetration Testing: WebView Attacks
Writeups
Challenge writeups
Pentest writeups
Responsible(ish) disclosure writeups
Bug bounty writeups
- How I hijacked the top-level domain of a sovereign state (Internet Bug Bounty)
- Attack of the clones 2: Git CLI remote code execution strikes back (GitHub)
- Guest Blog Post: Leaking silhouettes of cross-origin images (Mozilla, Chrome)
- The Embedded YouTube Player Told Me What You Were Watching (and more) (Google, $1,337)
- Insertion Of Malicious Links For Execution In Profile Picture – Unvalidated User Input In MS Sharepoint 2019 (CVE-2020-1456) (Microsoft)
- Weblogic Remote Code Execution (Exploiting CVE-2019-2725)
- Let’s know How I have explored the buried secrets in React Native application
- @samwcyo’s 2020 bugs
- Apache solr RCE via velocity template
- Access Token Smuggling from my.playstation.com via Referer Header (PlayStation, $1,000)
See more writeups on The list of bug bounty writeups.
Tools
- Metasploit Modules for RCE in Apache NiFi and Kong API Gateway
- whatislife_enum: File system enumerator and monitor for Android
- ssrf-king & Demo: Burp extension to automate detection
Tips
- Exploiting SSRF on exposed Selenium Grid hub
- @ngkogkos’s walkthrough of Burp extension AutoRepeater
- Bypass XXE filters based on Content-Type
- @HolyBugx’s File Upload Checklist
- @hunter0x7’s File upload checklist: Part 1, 2 & 3
Misc. pentest & bug bounty resources
- leaky-paths
- JavascriptRecon.md
- @Farah_Hawaa’s Web hacking Instagram reels
- PHPGGC: PHP Generic Gadget Chains
Challenges
Articles
- Insecure Features in PDFs
- How I stole the data in millions of people’s Google accounts
- Breaking The Browser – A tale of IPC, credentials and backdoors & ChromeTools
- Sign over Your Hashes – Stealing NetNTLM Hashes via Outlook Signatures & Sigwhatever
Bug bounty & Pentest news
- Introducing report collaboration: split these bounties!
- Evading Detection – A Beginner’s Guide to Obfuscation: January 23
Non technical
- Avoid Burnout as a Programmer or Hacker
- Hacker Spotlight: Interview With Samengmg
- Gamifying Security with Red Team Scores
- This is how you can deliver true value through your pentest reports
Community pick of the week
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