How an Account Takeover vulnerability, discovered during a routine customer engagement, became a candidate for responsible disclosure, via the Microsoft Security Research Center Researcher Portal.
Globally around 30,000 websites face a hack each day. Now multiply that by the days in a year and we have ourselves a whopping cause of concern.
Path traversal is a type of security vulnerability that can occur when a web application or service allows an attacker to access server files or directories that are outside the intended directory structure. This can lead to the unauthorized reading or modification of sensitive data.
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to improving the security of software. The OWASP foundation first released a list of the top 10 security risks faced by APIs in 2019. Although 4 years is an extremely long time when it comes to computing, the fact remains that most organizations are still in the process of putting better API security controls in place to protect against the 2019 Top 10.
In October of 2022, a critical flaw was found in the SnakeYAML package, which allowed an attacker to benefit from remote code execution by sending malicious YAML content and this content being deserialized by the constructor. Finally, in February 2023, the SnakeYAML 2.0 release was pushed that resolves this flaw, also referred to as CVE-2022-1471. Let’s break down how this version can help you resolve this critical flaw.
