Security Audits

I Stood Up a Vulnerable AI Chatbot and Watched It Fall. CVE-2025-64496, Every Step.

Full attack chain against Open WebUI v0.6.33 -- from a chat message to root RCE, admin JWT forgery, and persistent backdoor. CVE-2025-64496 exploitation with every command and dead end documented.

I Broke My Own Identity Provider

A complete live audit of Authentik 2025.12.3 — every command, every dead end, every lesson. 10 of 15 findings confirmed exploitable including full RCE from a non-superuser account, database compromise, and a two-command path to god-mode. Zero downloaded tools.

I Hardened a Grafana Stack From "Please Hack Me" to Production-Ready. Here's Every Command I Ran.

A complete live hardening session for a Grafana monitoring stack -- every command, every failure, every fix. 15 vulnerabilities across seven categories, from anonymous access and exposed Prometheus endpoints to plaintext secrets and a single browser tab that broke the rate limiter.