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When severity scores mislead - the case against single-metric risk models

Are you still chasing high CVSS scores? Learn how multi-dimensional risk models reveal what attackers really target.

Beyond the hype: how we built a machine-learning classifier (and refused to call It AI)

Beyond passive and active - a modern approach to network reconnaissance

This isn't your textbook recon. We're dissecting how modern network analysis blurs 'passive' and 'active,' offering a clearer path to target vulnerabilities.

Next.js security alert - how to attack and fix CVE-2025-29927

A single header bypass can compromise your entire Next.js application. Are you at risk? Find out how to fix CVE-2025-29927.

How to extract TLS secrets from Android apps using Frida and Wireshark

Break Android's TLS fortress! Frida & Wireshark reveal hidden app secrets. Bypass SSL pinning, expose API calls, and master traffic decryption now.

Buffer Overflows and Authentication Bypasses - exploiting CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2024-55591

A critical Ivanti flaw lets attackers bypass defenses faster than you can patch. But that's not all. A silent vulnerability lurks in Fortinet, too.

Unpacking LDAPNightmare (CVE-2024-49113 and CVE-2024-49112)

Uncover the secrets of LDAPNightmare - crash domain controllers, exploit AD weaknesses, and sharpen your pentesting skills

Year in review: 2024 on Pentest-Tools.com

🚀 2024 was one for the books at Pentest-Tools.com! Here are our customers' favorites and what made our year!

Cross-site WebSocket hijacking: understanding and exploiting CSWSH

This is an example of why it's worth taking a look in all the "boring" places (think RFC). They just might help you find the vulnerability you've been searching for!

How and why we built the Kubernetes Vulnerability Scanner

We began developing the Kubernetes Scanner with a focus on black and gray box remote scanning scenarios, as these are the most common among bug bounty hunters, pentesters, and red-teamers. We believe our Kubernetes Vulnerability Scanner is a state of the art improvement for its category of tools, but we don’t plan to stop here. We have a range of improvements in mind, from new detections and exploits to better integrations with other tools that will make this scanner an even more important asset for our customers.

70+ hacking books to level up your skills and thinking

What you feed your mind gets reflected in your choices. We curated a list of books that can get focus your energy on your next big challenge, get you out of a rut, or give you the space you need to tinker with your next project.

What is CVE-2024-6387? Understand RegreSSHion, the OpenSSH vulnerability

CVE-2024-6387, aka regreSSHion, is a new critical vulnerability affecting OpenSSH which remote, unauthenticated attackers can use to execute remote code. But there's more to this CVE than meets the eye