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security10 min read

Vercel breached through a compromised Context.ai OAuth grant

A compromised AI productivity tool called Context.ai gave attackers OAuth access to a Vercel employee's Google Workspace, pivoting into internal systems. The AI tool supply chain is the new CI/CD supply chain.

security9 min read

From tj-actions to LiteLLM to MCP: supply chain compromise now operates at infrastructure scale

NVIDIA's RAG Blueprint had a path traversal in its MCP server. We got the fix merged in three days.
vulnerability6 min read

NVIDIA's RAG Blueprint had a path traversal in its MCP server. We got the fix merged in three days.

security11 min read

Seven authentication bypasses that keep shipping in 2025 and 2026: the same architectural antipatterns, rewritten in new frameworks

Modern frameworks keep reimplementing the same seven authentication bypass patterns. From hardcoded credentials to missing origin checks, the bugs are structural, not accidental, and the AI tooling boom is accelerating the cycle.

Edict's file:// handler let anyone read files outside the project directory (CWE-22)
vulnerability5 min read

Edict's file:// handler let anyone read files outside the project directory (CWE-22)

AIPex's localhost daemon let any website control your browser through a WebSocket
vulnerability5 min read

AIPex's localhost daemon let any website control your browser through a WebSocket

security10 min read

LangFlow, n8n and the pattern where AI configuration becomes code execution

AI orchestration platforms like LangFlow and n8n are accumulating critical RCE vulnerabilities because their architectures treat user-supplied configuration as trusted code.

Anthropic shipped its entire source code to npm and the internet kept it forever
security10 min read

Anthropic shipped its entire source code to npm and the internet kept it forever

Every MCPHub instance started with the same admin password. I changed that.
vulnerability7 min read

Every MCPHub instance started with the same admin password. I changed that.

LightRAG's Memgraph backend had a Cypher injection vulnerability hiding in plain sight
vulnerability7 min read

LightRAG's Memgraph backend had a Cypher injection vulnerability hiding in plain sight

LightRAG's Memgraph storage backend interpolated unsanitised entity types directly into Cypher queries, enabling injection via the API. The Neo4j backend was already fixed.

Environment variables are the new command line: how AI agents keep leaking secrets through configuration files
security12 min read

Environment variables are the new command line: how AI agents keep leaking secrets through configuration files

TeamPCP compromised the AI proxy that holds everyone's API keys
security9 min read

TeamPCP compromised the AI proxy that holds everyone's API keys

PraisonAI let YAML config files set LD_PRELOAD and nobody checked
vulnerability7 min read

PraisonAI let YAML config files set LD_PRELOAD and nobody checked

PraisonAI's schedule config YAML could set LD_PRELOAD, PATH and 26 other dangerous environment variables with no validation. The fix adds a blocklist and fail-closed validation.

Git tags, package registries and extension marketplaces share the same broken authentication model
security12 min read

Git tags, package registries and extension marketplaces share the same broken authentication model

gptme was passing API keys on the command line where any user could read them
vulnerability8 min read

gptme was passing API keys on the command line where any user could read them