A few months ago, I began integrating Claude AI into my N-day research at Crowdfense to speed up my workflow. At first, I wanted to test its capabilities in script writing, patch diffing, bug finding, and other related tasks. I had read many blogs and posts from other security researchers about it, but I still wanted to experiment myself, and...
As part of our daily job in Crowdfense, we investigate and dive deep into recently disclosed vulnerabilities to determine their exploitability and, if possible, weaponise them. We maintain a curated list of n-days (N-day Vulnerability Intelligence Feed) for red and blue teams, aiding them in conducting their operations and APT simulation scenarios. As we routinely check for interesting...
In June, during "Patch Tuesday”, Microsoft released a fix for CVE-2024-30078. The severity of this vulnerability was marked as important, with its impact set to Remote Code Execution (RCE). After reading Microsoft’s bulletin, this vulnerability piqued our interest. It seemed plausible for an unauthenticated attacker to send a malicious packet to an adjacent system, which could enable remote...
