ANSI Escape Injection Vulnerability in WinRAR

On 28 February 2024, RARLAB released an update for WinRAR, patching an ANSI escape sequence injection vulnerability that I had found in the console versions of RAR and UnRAR, affecting versions 6.24 and earlier. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024–33899 for Linux and Unix systems and CVE-2024–36052 for the Windows, allowed attackers to spoof screen output or cause denial of service (in Linux and Unix). This vulnerability was patched in version 7....

21 May 2024 · 3 min · Siddharth Dushantha

How I was able to by bypass my schools security system and gain sudo privileges on the school MacBooks

I am very lucky to go to a school which gives us MacBook Airs to use at school and at home. A few months after I got my MacBook, I started to learn about the command line because why not? Something that I noticed while playing around on the terminal was that I was not able to run commands as root. I kept getting this error when running any command with sudo or if I just ran su:...

22 February 2019 · 3 min · Siddharth Dushantha

Reflected XSS and HTML injection on netlife.no

On the 22nd of October I was successfully able to find out that netlife.no was vulnerable to HTML injection and reflected XSS. So you might be wondering why did I target Netlife? Well it had only been a few weeks since we had school photos taken and after a few days we were told to go to fotonorden.no where we had to put in a code and then could see our images and Foto Norden used Netlife’s service to show and sell the photos to us....

25 October 2018 · 2 min · Siddharth Dushantha