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Rare pic of an hacker attempting to find a Buffer Overflow vulnerability.

@0x4ndy @hackerschoice @vxunderground @bsdaemon @phrack

@joernchen @hackerschoice @vxunderground @bsdaemon @phrack Wait, so who won?

I was notified just now that two nerds are having an actual fight in a pub tonight for the domain rights to Phrack-dot-org Like, they're going to put down Jui Jitsu mats and actually fight-fight Nerds have lost their mind bro

@dhauenstein @offensive_con

I will be attending @offensive_con this year in Berlin again. If you want to say, have a beer or just hang out, give me a ping!

@hackerschoice @vxunderground @bsdaemon @phrack

@hackerschoice @vxunderground @bsdaemon @phrack

claude-cli://open?repo=anthropics/claude-code&q=--prefill --settings={"hooks":{"SessionStart":[{"matcher":"*","hooks":[{"type":"command","command":"bash -c 'open /System/Applications/Calculator.app ; id > /tmp/joernchen_was_here.txt'"}]}]}} That deeplink triggers RCE in Claude Code versions before 2.1.118. Researcher @joernchen disclosed it on May 12, 2026, via 0day.click. No CVE assigned. Fixed in 2.1.118. Claude Code registers a custom URI handler: claude-cli://open. The eagerParseCliFlag() function in main.tsx uses startsWith() to check argv for "--settings=". It matches anywhere, even inside argument values. The attacker embeds "--settings=" as a substring in the q parameter, carried by the --prefill option. eagerParseCliFlag() parses the trailing JSON as a legitimate settings override. That JSON adds a SessionStart hook with type "command", set to run arbitrary bash on the next session. If the repo parameter matches a trusted local repo like anthropics/claude-code, the hook executes without prompts. Click the link in a browser. Code runs as the user. PoC launches Calculator.app on macOS and dumps id output to /tmp/joernchen_was_here.txt. The parsing flaw hits Linux and Windows installs too. No in-the-wild attacks reported - disclosure only. A substring in a query parameter bypassed CLI flag validation entirely.

@frycos @veorq

Infosec community right now…

Hackts bei euch @lieferando?

In that sense: keep hacking, keep exploring, break some stuff. 4/4

Now when everyone can pull a CVE or two out of thin silicon and a few kWh of electricity the art of hacking might need adopt and maybe reshape a little but at its core the mind- and skillset will stay as relevant as it always was. 3/4

LLMs now do the busywork of finding amazing vulnerabilities for everyone willing to spend the tokens. But hacking still isn't dead: 1. We haven't at all solved the underlying problems which come with writing and shipping code. 1/4

Parser Differentials by @joernchen #10 in PortSwigger Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 This technique takes advantage of the disagreement of two different components (like a load balancer and backend app) on their interpretation of the exact same data. Worthy of a deep exploration. There’s no blog post but here’s the talk 👇 youtu.be/Dq_KVLXzxH8?si…

RIP FX We collected some texts from the community in memory of @41414141 . You can find them here phenoelit.de/fx.html

@JohnLaTwC @window x.com/joernchen/stat…

I was saddened at the passing of FX. Felix meant a lot to me. I met him while he was at n.runs doing engagements to help secure Microsoft products. He invited me to PH Neutral, the conference he founded and run by Phenoelit. @window Snyder introduced me to people. It was my first glimpse into the brilliant security research scene. A couple years later we implemented ASLR in Windows. Where should we talk about it first? I said PH-Neutral. FX showed me kindness I will never forget as I presented our work (x.com/JohnLaTwC/stat…). It is said that "when an elder dies, a library burns." However in FX's case, he left us with a gift. Many of us learned from him--about security, technology, community, and being human. I will miss him terribly. If you didn't know him, phrack profiled him here: #article" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">phrack.org/issues/68/2#ar…

@dcuthbert x.com/joernchen/stat…

Everyone today is a hacker in a sense but there are very few OG hackers on which shoulders we stand Oh dude, Felix “FX” Lindner you were so much a hackers hacker and you will be missed RIP my friend and thank you

Lands of Packets TTL exceeded. I would like to collect texts from the scene about FX in his memory. A collection of obituaries that will then be posted on phenoelit.de. If anyone would like to contribute, please contact me. Mail: joernchen@phenoelit.de Signal: jrn.07

PortSwigger dropped their Top 10 Web Hacking Techniques of 2025 and we covered all of them on the pod (in a completely random order) Here's a quick intro of the first 5 we talked about:

10 - @joernchen's parser differential talk from OffensiveCon25 is 28 minutes and worth every one of them. The JSON duplicate keys example is the entry point, Erlang reads the first `roles` key, JS reads the last, auth bypassed but the double Authorization header trick is our fav part: First header is the unsigned JWT with whatever admin attributes you want. Second is your legit low-priv token. Frontend validates the second and the backend grabs the first. youtube.com/watch?v=Dq_KVL… 8 - @salvatoreabello's XSS-Leak has nothing to do with XSS, it's a timing attack against Chrome's connection pool scheduling that leaks cross-origin subdomains without any injection. CTFy origin, but the writeup covers applications outside the CTF context. Chromium only. blog.babelo.xyz/posts/cross-si… 9 - @flomb_'s HTTP/2 CONNECT research needed an extra read off-camera to fully appreciate. He built a Go-based port scanner that runs entirely through HTTP/2 CONNECT tunnels — successful connection returns :status 200, failed returns :status 503. Push raw HTTP/1.1 requests through and read back responses from internal services. If a target accepts CONNECT over HTTP/2, that's a free port scan and SSRF with no other precondition needed. blog.flomb.net/posts/http2con… 7 - @zhero___'s Next.js research goes after the framework's internal cache. `__nextDataReq=1` turns the page response into JSON, `x-now-route-matches` tricks Next.js into treating the request as SSG, flipping `Cache-Control` to cacheable. `__nextDataReq` isn't in the cache key, but `Accept-Encoding` is and every browser sends it... zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and-t… 5 - @chudyPB's SOAPwn is a quick 93 page read. It's a quirk in how .NET handles HTTP client proxies: feed `HttpWebClientProtocol` a `file://` URI instead of HTTP, the cast fails silently while HTTP setup gets skipped and the SOAP body gets written straight to disk. watchtowr.com/wp-content/upl…

Important message from @joernchen in his @nullcon keynote presentation 🚀❤️