OpenSSL 3.x Realistic ASN.1 / PKCS#12 Denial of Service Tool

This proof of concept builds structurally correct ASN.1 DER / PKCS12 files designed to stress-test OpenSSL's parser and memory handling. It focuses on non-exploitative impacts such as denial of service, excessive memory consumption, deep recursion, malformed lengths, and duplicated/overlapping...

A Trajectory-Based Safety Audit of Clawdbot (OpenClaw)

Clawdbot is a self-hosted, tool-using personal AI agent with a broad action space spanning local execution and web-mediated workflows, which raises heightened safety and security concerns under ambiguity and adversarial steering. We present a trajectory-centric evaluation of Clawdbot across six...

Assessing Cybersecurity Risks and Traffic Impact in Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Given the promising future of autonomous vehicles, it is foreseeable that self-driving cars will soon emerge as the predominant mode of transportation. While autonomous vehicles offer enhanced efficiency, they remain vulnerable to external attacks. In this research, we sought to investigate the...

pgAdmin 4 Multi‑Target Vulnerability Scanner

This project is a PHP‑based multi‑target vulnerability scanner designed to identify potential exposure to CVE‑2025‑13780 affecting pgAdmin 4 versions 8.14 and below. The tool operates as a heuristic / threat‑intelligence scanner, not an exploit...

An Empirical Study of the Imbalance Issue in Software Vulnerability Detection

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning DL is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within extensive code volumes. Despite its promise, DL-based...

Nikto Web Scanner 2.6.0

Nikto is an Open Source GPL web server scanner which performs comprehensive tests against web servers for multiple items, including thousands of potentially dangerous files/programs, checks for outdated versions of over 1500 server components, and version specific problems on hundreds of servers...

H.265/HEVC Video Steganalysis Based on CU Block Structure Gradients and IPM Mapping

Existing H.265/HEVC video steganalysis research mainly focuses on statistical feature modeling at the levels of motion vectors MV, intra prediction modes IPM, or transform coefficients. In contrast, studies targeting the coding-structure level - especially the analysis of block-level steganograph...

motionEye 0.43.1b4 Remote Code Execution

Client-side validation in motionEye's web UI can be bypassed via overriding the JS validation function. Arbitrary values including shell interpolation syntax can be saved into the motion config. When motion is restarted, the motion process interprets the config and can execute shell syntax embedd...

GoodVibe: Security-By-Vibe for LLM-Based Code Generation

Large language models LLMs are increasingly used for code generation in fast, informal development workflows, often referred to as vibe coding, where speed and convenience are prioritized, and security requirements are rarely made explicit. In this setting, models frequently produce functionally...

Practical Quantum Tokens: Challenges and Perspectives

The concept of quantum tokens dates back alongside quantum cryptography to Stephen Wiesner's seminal work in 19831. Already this initial work proposes society-relevant applications such as secure quantum banknotes, which can be exchanged between a bank and a customer. This quantum currency is bas...

Jailbreaking Leaves a Trace: Understanding and Detecting Jailbreak Attacks from Internal Representations of Large Language Models

Jailbreaking large language models LLMs has emerged as a critical security challenge with the widespread deployment of conversational AI systems. Adversarial users exploit these models through carefully crafted prompts to elicit restricted or unsafe outputs, a phenomenon commonly referred to as...

Multi Layer Protection against Low Rate DDoS Attacks in Containerized Systems

Low rate Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have emerged as a major threat to containerized cloud infrastructures. Due to their low traffic volumes, these attacks can be difficult to detect and mitigate, potentially causing serious harm to internet applications. This work proposes a DDoS...

Crontab Privilege Escalation

Two group crontab to root privilege separation bypasses were found. This is older research from 2017 that was missing from the archive...

OpenSSL 3.x Malicious AES‑GCM ASN.1 Parameter Injection

This C code is a security research proof of concept targeting OpenSSL's CMS Cryptographic Message Syntax handling. It programmatically creates a syntactically valid CMS AuthEnvelopedData object using AES-256-GCM, then injects a custom-crafted ASN.1 AESGCMPARAMETERS sequence with an abnormally lar...

Spinel: A Post-Quantum Signature Scheme Based on SLn(Fp) Hashing

The advent of quantum computation compels the cryptographic community to design digital signature schemes whose security extends beyond the classical hardness assumptions. In this work, we introduce Spinel, a post-quantum digital signature scheme that combines the proven security of SPHINCS+ CCS...

libssh 0.7.6 Advanced SSH Security Testing Tool

This is an advanced SSH security testing tool for libssh that provides robust session management, signal handling, safe memory management, and multiple operational modes while also checking banners to see if libssh is vulnerable to CVE-2018-10933...

Next-Gen CAPTCHAs: Leveraging the Cognitive Gap for Scalable and Diverse GUI-Agent Defense

The rapid evolution of GUI-enabled agents has rendered traditional CAPTCHAs obsolete. While previous benchmarks like OpenCaptchaWorld established a baseline for evaluating multimodal agents, recent advancements in reasoning-heavy models, such as Gemini3-Pro-High and GPT-5.2-Xhigh have effectively...

Framework for Integrating Zero Trust in Cloud-Based Endpoint Security for Critical Infrastructure

Cyber threats have become highly sophisticated, prompting a heightened concern for endpoint security, especially in critical infrastructure, to new heights. A security model, such as Zero Trust Architecture ZTA, is required to overcome this challenge. ZTA treats every access request as new and...

SoK: DARPA'S AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC): Competition Design, Architectures, and Lessons Learned

DARPA's AI Cyber Challenge AIxCC, 2023--2025 is the largest competition to date for building fully autonomous cyber reasoning systems CRSs that leverage recent advances in AI -- particularly large language models LLMs -- to discover and remediate vulnerabilities in real-world open-source software...

ACORN-IDS: Adaptive Continual Novelty Detection for Intrusion Detection Systems

Intrusion Detection Systems IDS must maintain reliable detection performance under rapidly evolving benign traffic patterns and the continual emergence of cyberattacks, including zero-day threats with no labeled data available. However, most machine learning-based IDS approaches either assume...

Beyond Crash: Hijacking Your Autonomous Vehicle for Fun and Profit

Autonomous Vehicles AVs, especially vision-based AVs, are rapidly being deployed without human operators. As AVs operate in safety-critical environments, understanding their robustness in an adversarial environment is an important research problem. Prior physical adversarial attacks on vision-bas...

Entropy Bounds Via Hypothesis Testing and Its Applications to Two-Way Key Distillation in Quantum Cryptography

Quantum key distribution QKD achieves information-theoretic security, without relying on computational assumptions, by distributing quantum states. To establish secret bits, two honest parties exploit key distillation protocols over measurement outcomes resulting after the the distribution of...

Clouding the Mirror: Stealthy Prompt Injection Attacks Targeting LLM-Based Phishing Detection

Phishing sites continue to grow in volume and sophistication. Recent work leverages large language models LLMs to analyze URLs, HTML, and rendered content to decide whether a website is a phishing site. While these approaches are promising, LLMs are inherently vulnerable to prompt injection PI...

Steganographic Information Hiding Via Symmetric Numerical Semigroups

We introduce a steganographic information hiding scheme based on structural properties of numerical semigroups arising from the Frobenius coin problem. Instead of encoding data through representable integers, the proposed protocol embeds information into the gap structure of carefully chosen...

WordPress Twenty Fifteen Theme DOM Cross Site Scripting

A DOM-based cross site scripting vulnerability exists in the WordPress Twenty Fifteen Theme. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via DOM manipulation. This issue is older research added to the archive...

Booked Scheduler 2.5.15 Cross Site Request Forgery

A cross site request forgery vulnerability exists in Booked Scheduler version 2.5.15. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users. This issue is older research added to the archive...

MyLittleForum 2.3.5 Cross Site Scripting

Multiple Reflected cross site scripting vulnerabilities exist in MyLittleForum version 2.3.5. The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This issue is older research added to the archive...

Subrion CMS 3.2.2 Cross Site Scripting

A cross site scripting vulnerability exists in Subrion CMS version 3.2.2. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML. This issue is older research added to the archive...

DuoLungo: Usability Study of Duo 2FA

Multi-Factor Authentication MFA enhances login security by requiring multiple authentication factors. Its adoption has increased in response to more frequent and sophisticated attacks. Duo is widely used by organizations including Fortune 500 companies and major educational institutions, yet its...

PIDSMaker: Building and Evaluating Provenance-Based Intrusion Detection Systems

Recent provenance-based intrusion detection systems PIDSs have demonstrated strong potential for detecting advanced persistent threats APTs by applying machine learning to system provenance graphs. However, evaluating and comparing PIDSs remains difficult: prior work uses inconsistent preprocessi...

Zeek 8.0.6

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek ha...

TOR Virtual Network Tunneling Tool 0.4.8.22

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables software developers to create new communication tools with built-in privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications that allow...

Libgcrypt 1.12.0

Libgcrypt is a general-purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptographic building blocks: symmetric ciphers AES, DES, Blowfish, CAST5, Twofish, and Arcfour, hash algorithms MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, and TIGER-192, MACs HMAC for all hash...

Notepad++ 8.9 Persistence Module

This Metasploit post-exploitation module abuses a legitimate Notepad++ feature by modifying the shortcuts.xml configuration file to register a custom external tool. The added tool appears in the Notepad++ Run menu and executes a user-defined command when manually selected by the user. This...

RedSage: A Cybersecurity Generalist LLM

Cybersecurity operations demand assistant LLMs that support diverse workflows without exposing sensitive data. Existing solutions either rely on proprietary APIs with privacy risks or on open models lacking domain adaptation. To bridge this gap, we curate 11.8B tokens of cybersecurity-focused...

Helper-Assisted Coding for Gaussian Wiretap Channels: Deep Learning Meets PhySec

Consider the Gaussian wiretap channel, where a transmitter wishes to send a confidential message to a legitimate receiver in the presence of an eavesdropper. It is well known that if the eavesdropper experiences less channel noise than the legitimate receiver, then it is impossible for the...

MalURLBench: A Benchmark Evaluating Agents' Vulnerabilities When Processing Web URLs

LLM-based web agents have become increasingly popular for their utility in daily life and work. However, they exhibit critical vulnerabilities when processing malicious URLs: accepting a disguised malicious URL enables subsequent access to unsafe webpages, which can cause severe damage to service...

Fundamentals, Recent Advances, and Challenges Regarding Cryptographic Algorithms for the Quantum Computing Era

This book arises from the need to provide a clear and up-to-date overview of the impacts of quantum computing on cryptography. The goal is to provide a reference in Portuguese for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in the field of data security and cryptography. Throughout the chapter...

Multi-Agent Collaborative Intrusion Detection for Low-Altitude Economy IoT: An LLM-Enhanced Agentic AI Framework

The rapid expansion of low-altitude economy Internet of Things LAE-IoT networks has created unprecedented security challenges due to dynamic three-dimensional mobility patterns, distributed autonomous operations, and severe resource constraints. Traditional intrusion detection systems designed fo...

CONTEX-T: Contextual Privacy Exploitation Via Transformer Spectral Analysis for IoT Device Fingerprinting

The rapid expansion of internet of things IoT devices have created a pervasive ecosystem where encrypted wireless communications serve as the primary privacy and security protection mechanism. While encryption effectively protects message content, packet metadata and statistics inadvertently expo...

Logwatch 7.14

Logwatch analyzes and reports on unix system logs. It is a customizable and pluggable log monitoring system which will go through the logs for a given period of time and make a customizable report. It should work right out of the package on most systems...

Side-Channel Attacks on Open VSwitch

Virtualization is widely adopted in cloud systems to manage resource sharing among users. A virtualized environment usually deploys a virtual switch within the host system to enable virtual machines to communicate with each other and with the physical network. The Open vSwitch OVS is one of the...

Unicornscan 0.4.43

Unicornscan is an information gathering and correlation engine built for and by members of the security research and testing communities. It was designed to provide an engine that is Scalable, Accurate, Flexible, and Efficient. It is released for the community to use under the terms of the GPL...

SimFuzz: Similarity-Guided Block-Level Mutation for RISC-V Processor Fuzzing

The Instruction Set Architecture ISA defines processor operations and serves as the interface between hardware and software. As an open ISA, RISC-V lowers the barriers to processor design and encourages widespread adoption, but also exposes processors to security risks such as functional bugs...

A Risk-Stratified Benchmark Dataset for Bad Randomness (SWC-120) Vulnerabilities in Ethereum Smart Contracts

Many Ethereum smart contracts rely on block attributes such as block.timestamp or blockhash to generate random numbers for applications like lotteries and games. However, these values are predictable and miner-manipulable, creating the Bad Randomness vulnerability SWC-120 that has led to real-wor...

YARA-X 1.11.0

YARA-X is a re-incarnation of YARA, a pattern matching tool designed with malware researchers in mind. This new incarnation intends to be faster, safer and more user-friendly than its predecessor. The ultimate goal of YARA-X is replacing YARA as the default pattern matching tool for malware...

AI-Driven Cybersecurity Threats: A Survey of Emerging Risks and Defensive Strategies

Artificial Intelligence's dual-use nature is revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape, introducing new threats across four main categories: deepfakes and synthetic media, adversarial AI attacks, automated malware, and AI-powered social engineering. This paper aims to analyze emerging risks,...

CuFuzz: Hardening CUDA Programs through Transformation and Fuzzing

GPUs have gained significant popularity over the past decade, extending beyond their original role in graphics rendering. This evolution has brought GPU security and reliability to the forefront of concerns. Prior research has shown that CUDA's lack of memory safety can lead to serious...

libpcap 1.10.6

Libpcap is a portable packet capture library which is used in many packet sniffers, including tcpdump...

Advanced Vulnerability Scanning for Open Source Software: Detection and Mitigation of Log4j Vulnerabilities

Automated detection of software vulnerabilities remains a critical challenge in software security. Log4j is an industrial-grade Java logging framework listed as one of the top 100 critical open source projects. On Dec. 10, 2021 a severe vulnerability Log4Shell was disclosed before being fully...