Tag: security

  • PolySwarm Smart Contract Hacking Challenge Writeup

    This is a walk through for the smart contract hacking challenge organized by PolySwarm for CODE BLUE conference held in Japan on November 01–02. Although the challenge was supposed to be held on-site for whitelisted addresses only, Ben Schmidt of PolySwarm kindly shared a wallet so that I could participate in the challenge.
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  • Adobe Experience Manager Vulnerability Scanner

    Adobe Experience Manager is content management system that is based on Apache Sling – a framework for RESTful web-applications based on an extensible content tree. Apache Sling in its turn is basically a REST API for Apache Jackrabbit, which is an implementation of Content Repository API for Java (JCR). The main principle of JCR is that everything is a resource. It means that any object in JCR repository can be retrieved in multiple ways depending on requested selector. E.g. if you make a request to /index.html you will get an HTML page, but if you replace .html with a .json selector you can get metadata of this resource:

    {
      "jcr:primaryType":"cq:Page",
      "jcr:createdBy":"transport-user",
      "jcr:created":"Mon Jun 13 2018 22:09:46 GMT+0000"
    }

    AEM installations typically have lots of hidden gems (even password hashes) if selectors are improperly configured. aemscan helps to discover such weaknesses and much more:

    • Default credentials bruteforce
    • Info leak via default error page
    • WebDav support check (WebDav OSGI XXE CVE-2015-1833)
    • Version detection
    • Useful paths scanner

    You can grab the source code from GitHub: https://github.com/Raz0r/aemscan. Pull requests are welcome!

  • Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts

    Slides from my AppSec California 2018 talk “Predicting Random Numbers in Ethereum Smart Contracts”

    Detailed blog post: https://blog.positive.com/predicting-random-numbers-in-ethereum-smart-contracts-e5358c6b8620

  • Looting GraphQL Endpoints for Fun and Profit

    In one of the previous posts about the state of modern web applications security I mentioned GraphQL – a new technology for building APIs developed by Facebook. GraphQL is rapidly gaining popularity, more and more services switch to this technology, both web and mobile applications. Some of the GraphQL users are: GitHub, Shopify, Pintereset, HackerOne and many more. You can find many posts about GraphQL benefits and advantages over classic REST API on the internet, however there is not so much information about GraphQL security considerations. In this post I would like to elaborate on GraphQL: how it works, what the weak points are, how an attacker can abuse them, and which tools can be used.
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