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How to Chain Vulnerabilities for RCE: From Image Metadata to Complete System Compromise

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A CTF postmortem: five chained flaws — from exiftool metadata revealing wkhtmltopdf, through traversal, SSRF and command injection — produced an unauthenticated CVSS 10.0 RCE in 3h15m.
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