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Cloud Security

Scanning Terraform and CloudFormation before you ever run apply

tfsec merged into Trivy in 2024 and OPA hit CNCF graduated status in 2021 — here's how to scan Terraform and CloudFormation before deploy, with a working Conftest policy.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Preventing mass assignment in Spring MVC and Spring Boot

CWE-915 mass assignment lets one extra JSON field turn a profile update into a privilege escalation — here's how DTOs beat @JsonIgnore in Spring.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Mass assignment in Node, Express, and Mongoose apps

One unfiltered req.body.role field can turn a signup form into an admin-creation endpoint — here's how mass assignment happens in Node and how to stop it.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Mass assignment in Python: how setattr and **kwargs turn request bodies into privilege escalation

One unguarded setattr() loop can let a JSON body set is_admin directly — the same bug class that let a researcher add his key to Rails' GitHub org in 2012.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Why Node.js's vm module is not a security sandbox

Node's own docs warn the vm module isn't a security mechanism — vm2, built on top of it, still shipped two CVSS 9.8 sandbox escapes in 2023.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Detecting and preventing Zip Slip and path traversal in Java

Snyk's 2018 Zip Slip disclosure hit Amazon, Apache, and LinkedIn projects at once — here's how the flaw still hides in Java archive code today, and how to catch it.

Jul 14, 20265 min read
Application Security

Preventing path traversal in Node.js file upload and serving code

path.join() doesn't stop ../../etc/passwd — CVE-2024-12905 and Zip Slip show why Node.js needs explicit containment checks, not just path normalization.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

Preventing XSS in Django applications

Django escapes template output by default, but mark_safe() and format_html() misuse routinely reopen the exact XSS holes auto-escaping was built to close.

Jul 14, 20266 min read
Application Security

ssl vs. requests vs. httpx: where Python TLS configuration goes wrong

Python didn't verify TLS certificates by default until PEP 476 landed in 2014 — a decade later, one stray verify=False call still reopens that exact hole.

Jul 14, 20265 min read
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