How Breaches Start: Breaking Down 5 Real Vulnerabilities 🕵️‍♂️💻

Cybersecurity is a battlefield, and every breach starts with a tiny crack in the armor. Attackers don’t always need a sledgehammer; sometimes, a cleverly exploited flaw is enough to bring down the castle. 🏰 In a recent article by Dark Reading, five real-world vulnerabilities uncovered by bug hunters were dissected to show how seemingly small weaknesses can snowball into catastrophic breaches. Let’s dive into these vulnerabilities, unpack their technical details, and explore how they were exploited in the wild. Buckle up — it’s going to be a wild ride through the dark alleys of cybersecurity! 🚀

1. Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF): The Redirect Ruse 🕸️

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) is like giving an attacker a skeleton key to your internal systems. In one case, bug hunters tested a home-moving app hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The app sent a webhook request to an attacker-controlled server, which responded with a 302 redirect to AWS’s metadata service. 😱 This sneaky move tricked the app into fetching sensitive data from the metadata service, exposing internal credentials.

Technical Breakdown

Vulnerability: The app failed to validate user-supplied URLs, allowing attackers to manipulate…