Welcome to the 8th post in our weekly series on the new 2023 OWASP API Security Top-10 list, with a particular focus on security practitioners. This post will focus on API7:2023 Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF). In this series we are taking an in-depth look at each category – the details, the impact and what you can do about it.

When scanning packages, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) scanners can find thousands of vulnerabilities. This leaves developers with the painstaking task of sifting through long lists of vulnerabilities to identify the relevance of each, only to find that many vulnerabilities don’t affect their artifacts at all.

Welcome to our cheat sheet covering the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs. If you haven’t heard of the OWASP Top 10 before, it’s probably most well known for its web application security edition. The OWASP Top 10 is a widely recognized and influential document published by OWASP focused on improving the security of software and web applications. OWASP has created other top 10 lists (Snyk has some too, as well as a hands-on learning path), most notably for web applications.

Rezilion Named SBOM Vendor in Gartner Hype Cycle for Software Engineering and Representative Vendor for Vulnerability Assessment and Vulnerability Prioritization Technology NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2023 — Rezilion, an automated software supply chain security platform, today announced that the company has been included in four unique Gartner Hype Cycle reports and identified as a representative vendor in the Gartner “Market Guide for Vulnerability Assessment” report.

Two new local privilege escalation vulnerabilities were recently discovered in Ubuntu: CVE-2023-2640 (CVSS 7.8) and CVE-2023-32629 (CVSS 7.8). The vulnerabilities, dubbed GameOver(lay), affect the OverlayFS module in multiple Ubuntu kernels. Ubuntu’s official security bulletin here and here outlines the impacted versions by both CVEs. It’s important to note that CrowdStrike Falcon® Cloud Security protects against both vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability scanning plays a crucial role in safeguarding applications and systems. By utilizing advanced software tools, it detects weaknesses or ‘vulnerabilities’ in computer systems that could be exploited by malicious individuals to compromise the system or steal valuable data.

During a recent customer engagement, I came across an instance of a rather rare vulnerability class called HTTP request smuggling. Over the course of several grueling days of exploit development, I was eventually able to abuse this vulnerability to trigger a response queue desynchronization, allowing me to capture other users’ requests, leading to session hijacking.