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medium6 min

Wildcard postMessage Origins: When Your Bridge Becomes a Security Gap

A medium-severity vulnerability was discovered in `frontend/resources/js/bridge.js` where `window.postMessage()` was configured with a wildcard (`"*"`) as the target origin, potentially allowing any malicious website to intercept sensitive messages. This misconfiguration opens the door to information disclosure attacks by removing all origin-based restrictions on who can receive cross-frame communications. The fix restricts message delivery to only trusted, explicitly defined origins — closing a

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
low7 min

SQL Injection via String Formatting: How Parameterized Queries Save the Day

A database query in DBeaver's Altibase extension was constructing SQL statements using `String.format()` with user-controlled input, creating a classic SQL injection vulnerability. The fix replaces the unsafe string interpolation with parameterized queries using `PreparedStatement`, ensuring user input is always treated as data rather than executable SQL. This type of vulnerability is deceptively simple to introduce but equally simple to fix once you know what to look for.

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
low6 min

From text/template to html/template: Closing the XSS Door in Go

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered and patched in a Go-based application where the `text/template` package was being used instead of the safer `html/template` package for rendering HTML content. This single-line fix — swapping one import — prevents user-controlled data from being injected as raw HTML, closing a potential attack vector for malicious script injection. While rated low severity, XSS vulnerabilities are among the most common and exploitable web security issues,

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
critical7 min

Critical Buffer Overflow in veejay packet.c: How Unchecked Network Packet Sizes Enable Remote Code Execution

A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in veejay's `packet.c` networking code, where `veejay_memcpy` operations used attacker-controlled size values from network packet headers without any boundary validation. This flaw could allow a remote attacker to send crafted packets that trigger heap corruption, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. The fix adds proper buffer-length checks before any memory copy operations, ensuring that packet sizes are validated against

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
critical8 min

Critical Integer Overflow in GIF Decoder: How a Simple Multiplication Can Lead to Heap Corruption

A critical integer overflow vulnerability was discovered and patched in the GIF decoder library `libnsgif`, where multiplying width, height, and pixel byte values from untrusted GIF headers could silently overflow, causing heap buffer corruption during image processing. This class of vulnerability is particularly dangerous because it originates from attacker-controlled input and can lead to arbitrary code execution or process crashes. The fix introduces explicit overflow checks before any memory

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
critical8 min

Critical Heap Buffer Overflow in neural_web.c: How an Unsafe strcpy() Almost Took Down Production

A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered and patched in `src/neural_web.c`, where an unbounded `strcpy()` call allowed attacker-controlled input to overflow a fixed-size buffer in the context cache structure. Left unpatched, this flaw could have enabled arbitrary code execution or denial of service by crafting malicious input vectors passed to the `categorizeInput` function. The fix introduces proper bounds checking, closing a confirmed-exploitable attack surface in productio

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
high7 min

Heap Buffer Overflow in libcurl Callback: How a Missing Bounds Check Opened the Door to Remote Exploitation

A high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered and patched in `uri.c`, where a libcurl write callback copied received data into a fixed-size buffer without verifying the total size wouldn't exceed its allocated capacity. Because the affected code runs against attacker-controlled remote endpoints, a malicious server could send oversized responses to corrupt heap memory and potentially execute arbitrary code. The fix introduces a proper buffer-length check before the `memcpy` ca

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
critical9 min

Heap Corruption via Integer Overflow in URI Parsing: A Deep Dive into CWE-190

A critical integer overflow vulnerability in `uri.c` allowed attackers to craft malicious URI strings that caused an undersized heap allocation followed by an out-of-bounds `memcpy`, leading to heap corruption. The fix adds mandatory bounds validation before any memory allocation, ensuring the `len + 1` calculation cannot silently wrap around to zero. Left unpatched, this vulnerability could enable remote code execution through carefully crafted URI inputs.

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orbisai0security
May 28, 2026
critical8 min

Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in GLTF Loader: How a Missing Bounds Check Could Crash Your App or Leak Memory

A critical out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability was discovered in the Effekseer GLTF resource loader, where a `memcpy` operation copied data from a buffer without first verifying the source contained enough bytes. An attacker could craft a malicious GLTF file with truncated buffer data to crash the application or leak sensitive heap memory contents. The fix adds a simple but essential bounds check before the copy operation, ensuring the source buffer always contains at least as many bytes as th

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orbisai0security
May 27, 2026
critical8 min

Critical Buffer Overflow Fixed: sprintf() to snprintf() in Vorbis Producer

A critical buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Vorbis producer module (`src/modules/vorbis/producer_vorbis.c`), where an unchecked `sprintf()` call allowed attacker-controlled metadata from Vorbis audio files to overflow a fixed-size buffer. The fix replaces `sprintf()` with `snprintf()` and adds explicit bounds checking, ensuring that no metadata key — no matter how long or maliciously crafted — can corrupt adjacent memory. This class of vulnerability is one of the oldest and mo

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orbisai0security
May 27, 2026
high7 min

CVE-2026-41676: Fixing a High-Severity OpenSSL Vulnerability in Rust Applications

CVE-2026-41676 is a high-severity vulnerability discovered in the rust-openssl crate, which provides OpenSSL bindings for Rust applications. Left unpatched, this flaw could expose backend services to cryptographic or memory-safety attacks through the underlying OpenSSL layer. The fix involved upgrading the rust-openssl dependency from version 0.10.75 to 0.10.78 in the project's Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock files.

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orbisai0security
May 26, 2026
critical8 min

Critical Stack Buffer Overflow in console.c: How strcat Without Bounds Checking Enables Arbitrary Code Execution

A critical stack buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered and patched in `binding/shared/console.c`, where an unchecked `strcat()` call concatenating file path components into a fixed-size stack buffer could allow attackers to overwrite the return address and achieve arbitrary code execution. This class of vulnerability — CWE-120, also known as a "Classic Buffer Overflow" — is one of the oldest and most dangerous bugs in systems programming, and its presence in a shared binding layer makes i

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orbisai0security
May 26, 2026