Tag: vulnerability

50 articles
Date Tue 22 April 2025
Author Mathieu Farrell
Category Pentest

The following article explains how, during an audit, we examined Moodle (v4.4.3) and found ways of bypassing all the restrictions preventing SSRF vulnerabilities from being exploited.


The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund, Inc, thanks to funding provided by Sovereign Tech Fund, engaged with Quarkslab to perform a security audit of PHP-SRC, the interpreter of the PHP language.

Date Tue 08 April 2025
Author Jérémy Jourdois
Category Android

A signature verification bypass in a function that verifies the integrity of ZIP archives in the AOSP framework

Date Tue 25 March 2025
Author Mathieu Farrell
Category Vulnerability

A technical exploration of a trivial Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in CCleaner <= v1.18.30 on macOS.

Date Fri 21 March 2025
Authors Célian Glénaz, Dahmun Goudarzi, Julio Loayza Meneses
Category Cryptography

Following the introduction of crypto-condor and differential fuzzing in earlier blogposts, we showcase a use case where Quarsklab's automated test suite for cryptographic implementations allowed us to improve the reference implementation of the recently standardized HQC scheme.

Date Tue 25 February 2025
Author Mathieu Farrell
Category Pentest

The following article describes how, during an "assumed breach" security audit, we compromised multiple web applications on our client's network in order to carry out a watering hole attack by installing fake Single Sign-On pages on the compromised servers. This article is the first of a two-part series and explains why it is not enough to just check for CVEs, and why we should dive deep into the code to look for new vulnerabilities in old code bases. We will take phpMyAdmin version 2.11.5 as an example, as this is the version we encountered during the audit.

Date Tue 25 February 2025
Author Mathieu Farrell
Category Pentest

In this series of articles we describe how, during an "assumed breach" security audit, we compromised multiple web applications on our client's network to carry out a watering hole attack by installing fake Single Sign-On pages on compromised servers. In our second episode we take a look at SOPlanning, a project management application that we encountered during the audit.

Date Fri 14 February 2025
Author Loïc Buckwell
Category Vulnerability

Apple released iOS 18.3.1 (build 22D72) to patch a vulnerability tied to the Accessibility framework and reported by Citizen Lab. Let's analyze it!

Date Tue 11 February 2025
Author Gwaby
Category Exploitation

In this blog post we explain the consequences of asking our R&D boss for a Steam Deck as a Christmas gift. It involves a couple of vulnerabilities, limited primitives, challenging exploitation and a long disclosure process.

Date Fri 25 October 2024
Author Baptiste Boyer
Category Fuzzing

This blog post presents our fuzzer for the Bluetooth Low Energy GATT layer and the related vulnerabilities found with it.