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.

March 6, 2026 · 39 min · Oob Skulden™

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.

February 25, 2026 · 31 min · Oob Skulden™