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Building Confidence and Trust in AI-Generated Code
To tackle the accountability and ownership challenge accompanying AI-generated code, we are introducing Sonar AI Code Assurance
Package management: a brief history
Application developers today are used to relying on and pulling in a number of open source libraries to help them focus on the functionality that’s important to their business.
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The simple magic of package manifests and lockfiles
If you aren’t using open source components to build your apps, you’re not living in 2019. Our research suggests 92% of professional applications are built using open source.
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Backend SQL Injection in BigTree CMS 4.4.6
BigTree is a small content management system which does not depend on many frameworks and advertises itself as user friendly and developer ready. In this blog post, we will take a look at a few vulnerabilities we have detected in the codebase of BigTree.
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How much time do developers spend actually writing code?
In this post, we share the third of eight key findings. If you don’t wait to wait for the rest of the results, you can download the full survey report right now at the link below.
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Drive By RCE Exploit in Pimcore 6.2.0
In this technical blog post we will examine how a drive by exploit in the Pimcore release 6.2.0 allows an attacker to execute OS commands.
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WooCommerce 3.6.4 - CSRF Bypass to Stored XSS
WooCommerce is the most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress with over 5 million installations. We detected a code vulnerability in the way WooCommerce handles imports of products.
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Bitbucket 6.1.1 Path Traversal to RCE
In this blog post we analyse how the insecure extraction of a compressed TAR archive lead to a critical vulnerability in Bitbucket (CVE-2019-3397).
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SuiteCRM 7.11.4 - Breaking Into Your Internal Network
In this blog post we will see how a vulnerable web application deployed in the internal network of your company can act as a charming entry gateway for any adversary.
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Pre-Auth Takeover of OXID eShops
We detected a highly critical vulnerability in the OXID eShop software that allows unauthenticated attackers to takeover an eShop remotely in less than a few seconds - all on default configurations.
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TYPO3 9.5.7: Overriding the Database to Execute Code
In this technical blog post we examine a critical vulnerability in the core of the TYPO3 CMS (CVE-2019-12747). A reliable exploit allows the execution of arbitrary PHP code on the underlying system as authenticated user.
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Magento 2.3.1: Unauthenticated Stored XSS to RCE
This blog post shows how the combination of a HTML sanitizer bug and a Phar Deserialization in the popular eCommerce solution Magento <=2.3.1 lead to a high severe exploit chain. This chain can be abused by an unauthenticated attacker to fully takeover certain Magento stores and to redirect payments.
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