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Integrating C/C++ security scanning into CI pipelines
Roughly 70% of CVEs Microsoft assigns each year are memory-safety bugs. Here's how to catch them in C/C++ CI pipelines before they ship.
Jul 13, 20267 min read
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Java deserialization gadget chains explained
One 2015 talk and a tool called ysoserial turned ordinary Java libraries into remote code execution chains — here's how gadget chains work and how to stop them.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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Using Jakarta Bean Validation correctly: a defensive walkthrough
Jakarta Bean Validation stops malformed input, not attackers — a 2025 Hibernate Validator EL-injection flaw (CVSS 7.3) shows what goes wrong when teams conflate the two.
Jul 13, 20267 min read
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Preventing insecure deserialization in Node.js
A 2017 node-serialize flaw let attackers turn a signed cookie into remote code execution — here's how deserialization bugs still slip into Node apps.
Jul 13, 20265 min read
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Preventing SMTP injection vulnerabilities in email-sending code
A crafted From address turned PHPMailer into a remote code execution bug in 2016 — here's how header injection works and how to stop it.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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Preventing XSS in Java Spring and JSP applications
OWASP folded XSS into A03:2021-Injection, present in ~3.37% of tested apps — raw JSP EL output and a missing CSP header are still the two most common causes.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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How catastrophic regex backtracking causes ReDoS — and how to stop it
A single bad regex took Cloudflare's global network to ~100% CPU for 27 minutes in 2019. Here's the backtracking mechanics behind ReDoS and how to rewrite unsafe patterns.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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Safely Parsing Untrusted URLs in Node.js
Node's legacy url.parse() is deprecated (DEP0169), and parser mismatches between it, the WHATWG URL API, and fetchers are a documented root cause of SSRF and open redirects.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
Application Security
XPath injection: how it happens and how to stop it in Java, .NET, and PHP
A 2024 GeoServer flaw showed unsanitized input reaching an XPath evaluator can mean remote code execution, not just data leakage. Here's how to prevent it.
Jul 13, 20266 min read
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