Polkit pkexec Privilege Escalation: CVE-2021-4034 (PwnKit)
A 12-year-old memory corruption bug in Polkit's pkexec gave any unprivileged local user instant root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. Here's why it matters.
Deep dives, practical guides, and incident analyses from engineers who build Safeguard. No fluff, no vendor FUD — just what you need to ship secure software.
A 12-year-old memory corruption bug in Polkit's pkexec gave any unprivileged local user instant root access on virtually every major Linux distribution. Here's why it matters.
A deep dive into CVE-2020-7598, the minimist prototype pollution vulnerability that rippled across the npm ecosystem, with impact, timeline, and remediation steps.
As Rust adoption accelerates, its crate ecosystem faces the same supply chain threats that plague npm and PyPI. Here's what the Rust community is doing right — and where gaps remain.
A practical, no-hype comparison of AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, HashiCorp Vault, and Doppler — plus how to actually evaluate one.
A sophisticated cyberattack on the International Committee of the Red Cross compromised personal data of over 515,000 highly vulnerable people, including victims of conflict, missing persons, and detained individuals.
node-forge's RSA signature verification (CVE-2022-24771/24772) and prototype pollution (CVE-2020-7720) let attackers forge trust decisions across X.509, PKCS#7, and PKCS#12 flows.
The Log4Shell vulnerability exposed more than a critical flaw in Java logging. It revealed a systemic failure in how the industry treats the people who maintain critical open source infrastructure.
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) still hides in container images years later. Here's how it works, its CVSS/EPSS/KEV context, and how to detect and remediate it across ECR, ACR, and GAR.
Attackers bypassed Crypto.com's two-factor authentication system to drain approximately $34 million from 483 user accounts, raising serious questions about the security of centralized crypto exchanges.
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