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Technical Writeups & Analysis

Detailed architectural writeups, exploit mechanics, root cause analyses, and defensive patterns. Authored for security researchers, software engineers, and application architects.

API
API Security
7 min read
2026-07-22
Dissecting Broken Object Level Authorization in Federated GraphQL Subgraphs

A deep dive into how decoupled microservice resolvers in Apollo Federation can fail to propagate tenant authorization contexts, leading to stealthy data cross-contamination.

#GraphQL
#BOLA
#Authorization
#Microservices
#Apollo
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Web
Server-Side Request Handling
9 min read
2026-05-18
Second-Order Blind SSRF via Asynchronous Webhook Pipelines

Exploring why synchronous URL validation fails when background task queues fetch webhook targets asynchronously without re-validating DNS resolutions.

#SSRF
#DNS Rebinding
#Webhooks
#Cloud Security
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Web
Business Logic
6 min read
2026-02-15
Race Conditions in Idempotency-Key Deduplication Logic

Analyzing concurrent HTTP requests and time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaws in distributed idempotency implementations.

#Race Condition
#Idempotency
#Concurrency
#Redis
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