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Congratulations to KuK Hofhackerei – 9th Place at DEF CON CTF 33!

August 12, 2025

We are incredibly proud of the Austrian hacking team KuK Hofhackerei, which secured 9th place at DEF CON CTF 33, one of the toughest and most renowned Capture the Flag competitions in the world. The DEF CON Capture the Flag competition is… Read More

Congratulations to KuK Hofhackerei – 9th Place at DEF CON CTF 33!

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Insecure Password Handling (CVE-2025-52997)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview All user accounts authenticate towards a Filebrowser instance with a password. A missing password policy and brute-force protection makes it impossible for administrators to properly secure the authentication process. Recommended Countermeasure We recommend to update to Filebrowser version 2.34.1 or later and configure… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Password Protection of Links Bypassable (CVE-2025-52996)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview Files managed by Filebrowser can be shared with a link to external persons. While the application allows protecting those links with a password, the implementation is error-prone, making an incidental unprotected sharing of a file possible. Recommended Countermeasure We recommend to update to… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Command Execution Allowlist Bypass (CVE-2025-52995)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview The Command Execution feature of Filebrowser only allows the execution of shell commands which have been predefined on a user-specific allowlist. The implementation of this allowlist is erroneous, allowing a user to execute additional commands not permitted. Recommended Countermeasure We recommend to update… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Command Execution not Limited to Scope (CVE-2025-52904)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview In the web application, all users have a scope assigned, and they only have access to the files within that scope. The Command Execution feature of Filebrowser allows the execution of shell commands which are not restricted to the scope, potentially giving an attacker read and write access… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Shell Commands Can Spawn Other Commands (CVE-2025-52903)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview The Command Execution feature of Filebrowser only allows the execution of shell command which have been predefined on a user-specific allowlist. Many tools allow the execution of arbitrary different commands, rendering this limitation void. Recommended Countermeasure We recommend to disable the… Read More

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Sensitive Data Transferred in URL (CVE-2025-52901)

July 24, 2025

Vulnerability Overview URLs that are accessed by a user are commonly logged in many locations, both server- and client-side. It is thus good practice to never transmit any secret information as part of a URL. Filebrowser violates this practice, since access tokens are used as GET parameters. Read More

New Journal Article in MDPI’s Nitrogen

July 16, 2025

Our colleague Sebastian Raubitzek, researcher at SBA Research and a member of the Security and Privacy Research Group at the University of Vienna, has published a journal article titled “Multi-Class Machine Learning to Quantify the Impact of Nitrogen Management Practices on Grassland Biomass” in MDPI’s Journal Nitrogen ... Read More

Young Researchers´ Day @ ICT Security Conference 2025 – Recap

July 2, 2025

A group of dedicated young researchers presented their work at the 21st ICT Security Conference on 25 and 26 June 2025, which was organized by the Austrian Armed Forces. They impressed the audience with their… Read More

Young Researchers´ Day @ ICT Security Conference 2025 – Recap

Detection of Null Pointer Dereference in MediaTek VoLTE Stack Firmware with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund

June 6, 2025

Together with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund, Gabriel Gegenhuber, researcher at SBA Research and University of Vienna, and Michael Pucher, researcher at SBA research, discovered and investigated a vulnerability in the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) stack that is broadly used within MediaTek-based smartphones. Read More

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Congratulations to KuK Hofhackerei – 9th Place at DEF CON CTF 33!

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Insecure Password Handling (CVE-2025-52997)

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Password Protection of Links Bypassable (CVE-2025-52996)

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Command Execution Allowlist Bypass (CVE-2025-52995)

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Command Execution not Limited to Scope (CVE-2025-52904)

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Shell Commands Can Spawn Other Commands (CVE-2025-52903)

SBA Security Advisory – Filebrowser Sensitive Data Transferred in URL (CVE-2025-52901)

New Journal Article in MDPI’s Nitrogen

Young Researchers´ Day @ ICT Security Conference 2025 – Recap

Detection of Null Pointer Dereference in MediaTek VoLTE Stack Firmware with sipgate and ISMK Stralsund

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