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Patch Diffing CVE-2024-3400 from a Palo Alto NGFW Marketplace AMI
One of the needs during CVE-2024-3400 testing was the ability to test against a live non-production vulnerable instance. We opted for the Palo Alto NGFW AWS Marketplace AMI.
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From Twitter to Exploit: The Sprocket Security Lifecycle of Exploitation
Our approach to mass exploitation of the latest and greatest vulnerability. On the chopping block, this time around: CVE-2024-3400. read more →
Introduction to the Ticketing SaaS Landscape
The shift to remote work has led to significant changes in organizational dynamics and technology infrastructure, particularly in ticketing, help desk, and management platforms. Sprocket pentesters focus on evaluating… read more →
I Love Lucee: Building Lucee Extensions for Remote Code Execution
During the past few assessments, Sprocket has encountered improperly configured instances of Lucee 5 and 4. This blog post will detail a straightforward method to execute remote code after acquiring administrative… read more →
Subdomain Takeovers - It’s Always DNS
In this article, we will look at a few different takeover methods, detail how we find them, show how they are exploited, and the easy solution to fixing this potentially severe vulnerability. read more →
Directory Brute-forcing at Scale
Tools such as dirbuster, gobuster, feroxbuster, dirb, and ffuf have been instrumental in uncovering hidden content on websites. These tools and wordlists designed to discover files and directories have become staples in… read more →
How to introduce security testing to your web app deployments during QA
Fixing these vulnerabilities in production is more expensive than finding and fixing them earlier in the SDLC. One way that organizations can drive down the cost of vulnerability management is by integrating security… read more →
Surfacing the Invisible: A Guide to Web Application Attack Surface Management
The top five web application-specific attack surface management opportunities Sprocket Security sees regularly. read more →
Discovering wp-admin.php URLs in Wordpress With GravityForms
By targeting a specific endpoint and passing in a random string, GravityForms will prompt users to authenticate first. This results in the unauthenticated user being redirected to the obscured administrative login page… read more →
cURL For The Pentester: Above & Beyond
Did you know you can interact with LDAP using cURL? How about NTLM, proxy tunneling, or domain sockets? A deep dive into some less common and advanced features of cURL, including sending POST requests with a payload… read more →
Tools for Evading External Network Security Controls
Offensive operations require evasion techniques to bypass security controls. Testers will often find that their attacks against web applications, Office 365, and other external endpoints are quickly blocked. Read our… read more →
The Top 7 Most Exploitable CVEs in 2022
Vulnerability management can be an overwhelming task with so many new vulnerabilities identified each year. Learn about the top vulnerabilities of 2022, which should be at the top of your patch priority list. read more →
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