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April 16, 2026 by Nils Emmerich

Disclosure: Command Injection in Geutebrück Cameras

During a penetration test for a customer, we identified a command injection vulnerability in Geutebrück security cameras that allows authenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root through the web interface. The root cause is unsanitized user input being passed into a sed script (and at least 12 other CGI endpoints). In addition to the injection, we identified an XSS vulnerability, an exposed system menu leaking configuration and log data, and an insecure GET-parameter-to-environment-variable mapping that enables abuse of variables like LD_PRELOAD and LD_DEBUG. We reported the findings to Geutebrück and a patched firmware was provided. This post walks through how we got from a sed error message to a root shell.

Geutebrück cameras are used as security cameras for enterprises, industry, and critical infrastructure, and support video streaming and configuration via a web interface. If the web interface is compromised, attackers can manipulate the video stream, potentially having a high impact on physical security, as they could use it to display fake images and videos to hide the camera’s real feed.

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March 18, 2026 by Lorin Lehawany

Vulnerabilities in Broadcom VMware Aria Operations: Privilege Escalation (CVE-2025-41245 / CVE-2026-22721)

During a customer project, we identified privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Broadcom VMware Aria Operations. It is possible to escalate the privileges of an administrative vCenter user to an Aria administrator and take over systems integrated in Aria. Meaning, the vCenter user can gain privileged access to systems they have no access to. While both users might sound similarly privileged, this is not true in most environments – especially not in complex corporate environments: An insignificant vCenter user in a development environment can take over all other vCenters in a complex corporate environment.

The issue is exploitable in Aria’s default configuration. While the user is not an administrator, Aria maps the vCenter users to the PowerUser role, which is a privileged role in Aria and can be used to escalate its privileges to administrative users of other vCenters and connected VMware components.

Broadcom assigned CVE-2025-41245 and CVE-2026-22721 to the vulnerabilities and fixed the issue with VMSA-2025-0015 and VMSA-2026-0001.

In this blog post, we provide a brief background on VMware Aria Operations and vCenters, show what we found, and how we exploited this vulnerability in multiple ways to escalate privileges! Later, we talk about the disclosure process and Broadcom’s mitigation of the issue.

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February 17, 2026 by Malte Heinzelmann

Vulnerability Disclosure: JWT Authentication Bypass in OpenID Connect Authenticator for Tomcat

During a customer project we identified an issue with the validation of JWT tokens that allowed us to bypass the authentication by using unsigned tokens with arbitrary payloads. During analysis we found out that this is caused by a vulnerability within the library OpenID Connect Authenticator for Tomcat.

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November 22, 2024 by Nils Emmerich

Vulnerability Disclosure: Authentication Bypass in Vaultwarden versions < 1.32.5 - CVE-2024-55225

During a penetration test for a customer, we briefly assessed Vaultwarden, an open-source online password safe. In June 2024, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) published results¹ of a static and dynamic test of the Vaultwarden server component. Therefore, only a partial source code audit was performed during our assessment. However, a quick look was needed to find some glaring issues with the authentication.
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September 3, 2024 by Florian Kiersch

Disclosure: Potential Limitations of Apple ADE in Corporate Usage Scenarios

Apple Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) is presented as a way to automate and simplify the enrollment process of Apple devices within Mobile Device Management (MDE) solutions. This blog post is aimed at organizations currently planning or even already using this feature and making you, the reader, aware of potential limitations of this process that might otherwise not be clearly addressed in your companies’ device management process.

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August 9, 2024 by Jan Ruge

Disclosure: Apple ADE – Network Based Provisioning Bypass

Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions are used to centrally manage mobile devices in corporate environments. This includes the monitoring of the device, automatic installation/removal of apps or certificates and restrict the functionality. Even though MDM solutions exist for multiple vendors, we will look specifically on Apple devices enrolled via Intune. When an Apple device is registered for Automated Device Enrollment (ADE), it will automatically download and apply these policies during the initial setup and prior to the first boot.

During a customer project, we identified a network-based provisioning bypass which prevents the iPad to fetch and apply the provisioning profiles. Continue reading “Disclosure: Apple ADE – Network Based Provisioning Bypass”

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July 29, 2021 by Julian Suleder

ManiMed: Ypsomed AG – mylife YpsoPump System Vulnerabilities

Manipulating Medical Devices

The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) aims to sensitize manufacturers and the public regarding security risks of networked medical devices in Germany. In response to the often fatal security reports and press releases of networked medical devices, the BSI initiated the project Manipulation of Medical Devices (ManiMed) in 2019. In this project, a security analysis of selected products is carried out through security assessments followed by Coordinated Vulnerability Diclosure (CVD) processes. The project report was published on December 31, 2020, and can be accessed on the BSI website [1].

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