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Blog October 3, 2023
A Comparison Between the Real User ID and the Effective User ID is not Enough to Prevent Privilege Escalation
In Unix-like systems, processes have a real and effective user ID determining their access permissions. While usually identical, they can differ in situations like when the setuid bit is activated in executables.
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Blog April 14, 2013
Panoptic - A tool to exploit path traversal vulnerabilities
An overview of Panoptic, an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of search and retrieval of common log and config files through path traversal vulnerabilities.