info-security-portfolio

Information Security Portfolio A curated collection of nine e...

API Security Based on Automatic OpenAPI Mapping

This paper presents Map Reduce Graph MRG, a novel unsupervised method for modeling and securing HTTP REST APIs. MRG learns API structure from real-world traffic without prior knowledge or labels, automatically generating OpenAPI-compliant documentation by reconstructing routes, methods, and...

API Security Testing and Vulnerability Assessment

APIs now carry more sensitive data than traditional web interfaces. Payment details, health records, authentication tokens, and customer databases all flow through API endpoints that attackers can probe without ever touching a browser. A single misconfigured endpoint can expose millions of record...

PT-2026-33657

A weakness has been identified in serge-chat serge up to 1.4TB. The impacted element is the function download model/delete model of the file api/src/serge/routers/model.py of the component Model API Endpoint. Executing a manipulation can lead to missing authentication. The attack can be launched...

Kimai: Username enumeration via timing on X-AUTH-USER

Details src/API/Authentication/TokenAuthenticator.php calls loadUserByIdentifier first and only invokes the password hasher argon2id when a user is returned. When the username does not exist, the request returns roughly 25 ms faster than when it does. The response body is the same in both cases...

Changedetection.io Discloses Environment Variables via jq env Builtin in Include Filters

Summary The jq: and jqraw: include filter expressions allow use of the jq env builtin, which reads all process environment variables and stores them as the watch snapshot. An authenticated user or unauthenticated user when no password is set, the default can leak sensitive environment variables...

CVE-2026-33676

Vikunja is an open-source self-hosted task management platform. Prior to version 2.2.1, when the Vikunja API returns tasks, it populates the relatedtasks field with full task objects for all related tasks without checking whether the requesting user has read permission on those tasks' projects. A...

GHSA-V33R-R6H2-8WR7 Kimai's API invoice endpoint missing customer-level access control (IDOR)

Summary GET /api/invoices/id only checks the role-based viewinvoice permission but does not verify the requesting user has access to the invoice's customer. Any user with ROLETEAMLEAD which grants viewinvoice can read all invoices in the system, including those belonging to customers assigned to...

CVE-2026-3351

Improper authorization in the API endpoint GET /1.0/certificates in Canonical LXD 6.6 on Linux allows an authenticated, restricted user to enumerate all certificate fingerprints trusted by the lxd server...

CVE-2026-3265 go2ismail Free-CRM Security API improper authorization

A vulnerability was identified in go2ismail Free-CRM up to b83c40a90726d5e58f0cc680ffdcaa28a03fb5d1. This affects an unknown part of the file /api/Security/ of the component Security API. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. The...

CVE-2026-25164

OpenEMR before version 8.0.0 exposed documents and insurance data via the REST API. The route table in apis/routes/_rest_routes_standard.inc.php did not call RestConfig::request_authorization_check() for the document and insurance endpoints, allowing any valid API bearer token to access or modify...

exploit-notes

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Why API Security Is No Longer an AppSec Problem – And What Security Leaders Must Do Instead

APIs are one of the most important technologies in digital business ecosystems. And yet, the responsibility for their security often falls to AppSec teams – and that’s a problem. This organizational mismatch creates systemic risk: business teams assume APIs are “secured,” while attackers exploit...

BurpSuitePro

Burp Suite Bambda Scripts - Vulnerability Testing Toolkit v2.0...

Enhancements to Akamai API Security, Q4 2025

The Q4 2025 Akamai API Security updates help organizations shift security left, improve coverage, and reduce friction...

7 Reasons to Get Certified in API Security

API security is becoming more important by the day and skilled practitioners are in high demand. Now’s the time to level up your API security skillset. Wallarm University, our free training course, provides security analysts, engineers, and practitioners with hands-on skills you can’t get from...

CVE-2020-12477

The REST API functions in TeamPass 2.1.27.36 allow any user with a valid API token to bypass IP address whitelist restrictions via an X-Forwarded-For client HTTP header to the getIp function...

CVE-2023-45820

Directus is a real-time API and App dashboard for managing SQL database content. In affected versions any Directus installation that has websockets enabled can be crashed if the websocket server receives an invalid frame. A malicious user could leverage this bug to crash Directus. This issue has...

CVE-2023-29507

XWiki Commons are technical libraries common to several other top level XWiki projects. The Document script API returns directly a DocumentAuthors allowing to set any authors to the document, which in consequence can allow subsequent executions of scripts since this author is used for checking...

CVE-2019-7950

An access control bypass vulnerability exists in Magento 2.1 prior to 2.1.18, Magento 2.2 prior to 2.2.9, Magento 2.3 prior to 2.3.2. An unauthenticated user can bypass access controls via REST API calls to assign themselves to an arbitrary company, thereby gaining read access to potentially...