Researcher Harsh Jaiswal of Hacktron describes using the AI-assisted Hacktron CLI with a custom "JDBC driver pack" to audit decompiled JDBC drivers during a bug bounty event. The audit surfaced multiple vulnerabilities across vendor drivers, earning $85,000 in bounties. The headline finding is in the Databricks JDBC driver, where an attac…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron ran an AI-driven audit against vinext, Cloudflare's Next.js reimplementation reportedly built in a week with AI assistance. The scan produced 45 findings, of which 24 were manually validated, including several Critical issues. The most serious bugs allow cross-user session data leakage, shared cache …
Hacktron AI disclosed CVE-2026-1731, a critical (CVSS 9.9) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and older versions of Privileged Remote Access (PRA). An unauthenticated remote attacker could run operating system commands in the context of the site user. Hacktron found the flaw through A…
Hacktron AI researchers disclosed CVE-2026-33439 (CVSS 9.8, CWE-502), an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM 16.0.5 and earlier. It is a variant of CVE-2021-35464: the earlier fix whitelisted deserialization for the jato.pageSession parameter but left the sibling jato.clientSession parameter unfiltere…
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…
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 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 …
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…