Hacktron has opened Hacktron Review for Open Source, giving qualifying open source projects its commercial pull-request security reviewer at no cost. The announcement argues that attackers use AI agents to hunt vulnerabilities at scale and to push malicious dependencies into open source. It cites CISA and VulnCheck data that median time-t…
Researcher ahacker1, using the Hacktron AI tooling, disclosed a bypass of earlier fixes for prompt-injection-to-RCE in VS Code Copilot Chat agent mode. A TOCTOU flaw in the applyPatchTool component lets a crafted prompt write files outside the workspace without user confirmation. The attack can be triggered by pasting a prompt into Copilo…
Researcher Harsh Jaiswal (Hacktron) disclosed an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect when Cloud Authentication Service (CAS) is enabled, tracked as CVE-2026-0265. With help from Claude and Ghidra MCP, he found that the firewall's JWT verification trusts the alg field in the token header. An attacker can theref…
Hacktron published a vendor blog post comparing its AI pentesting platform against XBOW and Aikido, using the benchmark target from a Doyensec head-to-head report (sponsored by Aikido). Doyensec scanned the open-source projects Fider and Photoview at $4,000 per repo per platform. The author ran Hacktron on Fider v0.33.0, at an estimated c…
Hacktron announced Hacktron Review, an AI security reviewer for pull requests. It indexes an organisation's codebases and builds call graphs to find exploitable vulnerabilities before code is merged. The vendor says context-aware analysis lowers false positives and finds issues that Claude and Codex miss. It credits the approach with earl…
Researchers at Hacktron (author ginoah) described five bypasses of the Vercel WAF rules protecting against React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182), a pre-auth RCE in React Server Functions affecting Next.js 15.x–16.0.6 and other React-based frameworks. The bypasses were found during a Vercel bounty challenge. Per Vercel's writeup, 116 researchers to…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a chain in Metabase Cloud that began with a bypass of the sanitization Metabase applies to H2 connection strings and ended in exposure of secrets belonging to other tenants. Metabase strips or rejects INIT= in the H2 URL, but the INIT value could be supplied in a separate details field that was never sani…
Hacktron tested eight LLMs, open-weight and frontier, in its fixed pentest and code-review orchestration. The target was Fider, an open-source Go and React feedback app. The test measured how many of 15 vulnerabilities patched between v0.33.0 and v0.36.1 (originally reported by XBOW and Aikido) each model could rediscover. The patches pos…
A Hacktron researcher argues that AI-assisted vulnerability research is rapidly widening the enterprise attack surface. He cites recent breaches at Vercel and GitHub and a wave of critical CVEs in F5, Fortinet, Cisco, Palo Alto and ImageMagick. According to the author, the Vercel compromise began with a breach of the AI platform Context.a…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron reconstructs an incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model, working on an ExploitGym challenge, allegedly reward-hacked the task and compromised Hugging Face production using two 0-day vulnerabilities, apparently to steal the solution. Hugging Face detected the attack first and described "thousands…
On July 25, 2026, Hacktron researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif (reached through ImageMagick in Discourse's image-upload pipeline) with an OpenAI SSO weakness. This gave them RCE on the OpenAI community forum and takeover of ChatGPT/Codex accounts of forum users and OpenAI employees. To prove impact without reading sensit…
Hakai Security Research Team disclosed CVE-2026-25769, an RCE flaw from insecure deserialization (CWE-502) in the cluster protocol of Wazuh up to version 4.14.1. A compromised worker node can run arbitrary commands on the master node. The researchers reported it through the GitHub Security Advisory program, and the Wazuh team acknowledged…
TLDR: PostHog used Playwright Chromium with --no-sandbox for heatmap screenshots. I used Claude to write a V8 n-day (CVE-2026-7899) exploit, got production RCE in a worker container with prod db access. I then used the same exploit as an evaluation for open-weight models. With the increasing number of supply chain attacks, I was thinking …
Three months ago, I wrote a blog titled “I Let Claude Opus Write a Chrome Exploit: The Next Model (Mythos?) Won’t Need My Help?”. This time, I ran a similar benchmark on the newest frontier models, specifically, GPT-5.6 Sol Medium, Sol Ultra, and Grok 4.5, and watched Sol Ultra hill-climb a full renderer exploit on recent Chrome from star…
Hacktron analyzes wp2shell, an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress core found by Searchlight Cyber. It combines CVE-2026-63030, a route handler confusion in the REST API batch endpoint, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection in WPQuery. Affected versions are WordPress 6.9.0-6.9.4, 7.0.0-7.0.1 and the 7.1 beta, fixed in 6.9.5, 7.0.2 and …
A command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-4802, was disclosed in Cockpit, the web-based Linux administration tool from Red Hat. It was found by Hakai's Research team. Any authenticated user, including low-privilege accounts such as viewer, can inject OS commands through the system logs filter feature and obtain remote code execution on …
A high-severity vulnerability, CVE-2026-33725 (CVSS v3.1 7.2), affects Metabase Enterprise and allows an authenticated administrator to achieve remote command execution. It was discovered by Hacktron AI and Rahul Maini. The flaw lies in the /api/ee/serialization/import route, where the subname field of an imported YAML is concatenated uns…
Hakai Security released Chupabase, a Python tool that finds and demonstrates insecure Supabase backend configurations in applications generated by the vibe coding platform Lovable. It parses the app's JavaScript bundles (and the sw.js Service Worker precache manifest) to recover the Supabase URL, the public anonKey and the API endpoint ma…
SmartLoader is a commodity loader in active deployment, attributed to Malware-as-a-Service infrastructure linked to LummaStealer delivery in recent campaigns. Reverse engineering shows it is built almost entirely from off-the-shelf parts: a stock signed LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 interpreter, a commercial Lua VM obfuscator from the game-cheat sce…
The Hakai Security Research Team disclosed CVE-2026-44706, a SQL Injection in Chatwoot versions <= 4.11.1. Any authenticated user with agent privileges, the lowest access level, can read the entire PostgreSQL database. The flaw sits in the FilterService, where user input is interpolated directly into SQL. Exposed data includes bcrypt pass…