XBOW – How XBOW found a Scoold authentication bypass
As we shift our focus from benchmarks to real world applications, we will be sharing some of the most interesting vulnerabilities XBOW has found in real-world, open-source targets. The first of these is an authentication bypass in Scoold, a popular open-source Q&A platform.
Hasnain says:
Tonight’s technical read: how an autonomous AI agent found a critical security vulnerability given just a jar and a prompt.
I’m sure there was a lot of hand holding and failed attempts but this result is still pretty mind blowing. For me the key takeaways here are again in how the prompting was done, how a multi step reasoning process can really help with AI agents, and last (but not least) how important it is to watch out for error behavior and not log things you don’t want to.
“It’s worth reading the full trace showing XBOW’s discovery and exploitation of the vulnerability, but here we’ll provide a guided tour through the most interesting moments. Note that some of the trace excerpts below have been edited for brevity.”
Posted on 2024-12-10T07:10:50+0000