Tag: Bug Bounty

From Markdown to RCE in Atom

Recently I took a look at Atom, a text editor by GitHub. With a little bit of work, I was able to chain multiple vulnerabilities in Atom into an actual Remote Code Execution. The vulnerabilities have been fixed in the 1.21.1 release on October 12th, 2017 after I reported it via their HackerOne program. In case you want to…

November 21, 2017
Nextcloud, Bug Bounties and me

It is a well-known fact that I’m a vocal supporter of Bug Bounty programs. I do believe that running a fair and engaging bug bounty program is a great addition to any software security process. My personal experiences with Bug Bounties go back to the end of 2011 where somebody made me aware of the…

June 17, 2016

From Markdown to RCE in Atom