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My first RCE: a tale of good ideas and good friends

josephthacker.com | vulnerability | #bug-bounty | #rce | #methodology | #ssrf
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Joseph Thacker recounts his first RCE and first critical: spraying SSRF parameter payloads with meg across 600,000+ public bug bounty hosts, catching callbacks on a bare python http.server, then isolating the vulnerable host and parameter with split and grep.
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