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AI Tool Confused-Deputy: A Deep Dive
The confused deputy problem takes on new and subtle forms when AI agents invoke tools on behalf of users. A technical deep dive with concrete mitigations.
Aug 4, 20268 min read
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Software Supply Chain Security in 2025: The Year in Review
From the CVE program funding crisis to the rise of AI-targeted supply chain attacks, 2025 reshaped the software security landscape. A comprehensive look at the year's defining events and trends.
Aug 4, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Docker symlink race condition escape (CVE-2018-15664)
A TOCTOU race in Docker's docker cp symlink resolution let malicious containers write to host files as root. Impact, CVSS, and fixes inside.
Aug 4, 20268 min read
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Understanding model poisoning and backdoored model weights
A poisoned model looks like any other checkpoint file. Here's how model poisoning attacks work, real incidents on Hugging Face, and how detection and provenance checks catch them.
Aug 4, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Docker Engine crafted image denial of service (CVE-2021-21285)
CVE-2021-21285 lets a crafted container image crash Docker Engine before 20.10.3. Affected versions, severity, timeline, and remediation steps.
Aug 4, 20267 min read
AI Security
What an AI Bill of Materials is and why enterprises need one
An AI bill of materials (AIBOM) inventories the models, data, and dependencies behind an AI system. Here's what it is and why enterprises need one.
Aug 4, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
Docker Engine remap-root UID mapping vulnerability (CVE-2021-21284)
CVE-2021-21284 let remapped-root containers escalate to real host root, defeating Docker's userns-remap isolation. Here's the full breakdown and fix.
Aug 4, 20266 min read
AI Security
Risks of downloading malicious pretrained models from pub...
Real incidents show malicious Hugging Face models evading scanners with pickle exploits and reverse shells. Here's what teams need to know before the next pull.
Aug 4, 20267 min read
Vulnerability Analysis
What is prototype pollution and why it keeps recurring in npm packages
Prototype pollution has hit lodash, jQuery, minimist, hoek, and immer since 2018. Here's how the bug works and why it keeps coming back in npm.
Aug 4, 20266 min read
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