Vulnerabilities
What Is a CSRF Token, and How Does It Stop CSRF?
A CSRF token is a random, per-session value a server requires on state-changing requests so a malicious site can't forge one on a logged-in user's behalf.
Mar 4, 20265 min read
Resources
Supply Chain Security, in plain English.
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.
Filter
Articles
RSS feedVulnerabilities
The SnakeYAML Deserialization Vulnerability, Explained
SnakeYAML's default Constructor could instantiate arbitrary Java classes from YAML input — CVE-2022-1471 turned a config-parsing library into a remote code execution path.
Mar 1, 20265 min read
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-29425: The Commons IO Path Traversal Bug
CVE-2021-29425 shows how a single unhandled case in Apache Commons IO's path normalization let attackers slip past directory checks that assumed a canonicalized path was actually safe.
Mar 1, 20264 min read
Vulnerabilities
SSRF Examples and How They're Actually Exploited
Real SSRF examples, from cloud metadata theft to internal port scanning, showing exactly how a server-side request forgery bug gets turned into a full compromise.
Mar 1, 20266 min read
Vulnerabilities
SQL Injection Examples: Classic and Modern Attack Patterns
Real SQL injection examples from classic login bypass to blind, time-based, and ORM-era attacks, plus how to test for each one safely.
Feb 28, 20267 min read
Vulnerabilities
CSRF Attacks: How They Work and How Tokens Stop Them
A CSRF attack rides a logged-in user's browser to forge requests they never meant to send. Here is the mechanism and why anti-CSRF tokens defeat it.
Feb 27, 20266 min read
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-24785: The Moment.js Path Traversal, Explained
A user-controlled locale string was all it took: how CVE-2022-24785 let attackers traverse paths through Moment.js locale loading on Node.js, and why the fix is a one-line upgrade.
Feb 27, 20265 min read
Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-8331: The Bootstrap XSS Vulnerability, Explained
CVE-2019-8331 let attackers inject script through Bootstrap's tooltip and popover template options, a pattern that recurred across several Bootstrap CVEs before 4.3.1 finally closed it.
Feb 27, 20264 min read
Vulnerabilities
SQL Injection Basics for Engineers Who Aren't Security Specialists
SQL injection is still one of the most common ways applications get breached, and the fix is usually a one-line change — this walks through the basics with a real example.
Feb 26, 20265 min read
Stay informed
Weekly insights on software supply chain security, delivered to your inbox.
Self-healing security runs on Safeguard.
Your first fix PR is minutes away.
No sales call required, even your agent can complete the purchase over MCP.