Harnessing LLM Harnesses: AI Orchestration for Offensive Security Research
Original text: “Harnessing Harnesses – Climbing the LLM Hills” — Andy Gill, ZephrSec / blog.zsec.uk (27 Jun 2026).
Executive Summary
Most LLM workflow discussion centres on prompt engineering and model selection, yet in practice the biggest gains in capability, cost and reliability come from the orchestration layer sitting above the model—what Andy Gill (ZephrFish) calls…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/harnessing-llm-harnesses-offensive-security-ai-orchestration/
Original text: “Harnessing Harnesses – Climbing the LLM Hills” — Andy Gill, ZephrSec / blog.zsec.uk (27 Jun 2026).
Executive Summary
Most LLM workflow discussion centres on prompt engineering and model selection, yet in practice the biggest gains in capability, cost and reliability come from the orchestration layer sitting above the model—what Andy Gill (ZephrFish) calls…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/harnessing-llm-harnesses-offensive-security-ai-orchestration/
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CVE-2026-47291: Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution in Windows HTTP.sys
Original text: “CVE-2026-47291: Remote Code Execution in the Windows HTTP.sys” — Yazhi Wang and Jonathan Lein, TrendAI Zero Day Initiative (July 10, 2026). Code blocks are reproduced verbatim from the original with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
CVE-2026-47291 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in HTTP.sys, the kernel-mode HTTP protocol driver that underpins Internet Information…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-47291-rce-windows-http-sys/
Original text: “CVE-2026-47291: Remote Code Execution in the Windows HTTP.sys” — Yazhi Wang and Jonathan Lein, TrendAI Zero Day Initiative (July 10, 2026). Code blocks are reproduced verbatim from the original with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
CVE-2026-47291 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability in HTTP.sys, the kernel-mode HTTP protocol driver that underpins Internet Information…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-47291-rce-windows-http-sys/
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Two Bytes to RCE: Chaining Rift + PoolSlip into an ASLR-Independent nginx 1.30.0 Exploit
Original text: “Two Bytes to RCE: Chaining Rift + PoolSlip” — y198, Verichains (Jun 06, 2026). Code, tables and figures below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions. PoC: github.com/y198nt/Nginx-chain-Rift-Poolslip.
Executive Summary
A two-bug chain in nginx 1.30.0 achieves unauthenticated remote code execution without relying on ASLR breaks. The first bug, CVE-2026-42945 (“Rift”), is a forward…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/nginx-rce-rift-poolslip-aslr-independent/
Original text: “Two Bytes to RCE: Chaining Rift + PoolSlip” — y198, Verichains (Jun 06, 2026). Code, tables and figures below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions. PoC: github.com/y198nt/Nginx-chain-Rift-Poolslip.
Executive Summary
A two-bug chain in nginx 1.30.0 achieves unauthenticated remote code execution without relying on ASLR breaks. The first bug, CVE-2026-42945 (“Rift”), is a forward…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/nginx-rce-rift-poolslip-aslr-independent/
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CET-Compliant Callstack Spoofing via Thread Pool Enum Callback Trampolining
Original text: “CET-Compliant Callstack Spoofing via Thread Pool Enum Callback Trampolining” — Tiziano Marra, Tiziano’s Cybersecurity Blog (12 July 2026). Code blocks, tables, and figures below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Research published for educational and defensive purposes. Always obtain explicit written authorization before testing security techniques on any computer system. Unauthorized access is…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cet-compliant-callstack-spoofing-thread-pool-enum/
Original text: “CET-Compliant Callstack Spoofing via Thread Pool Enum Callback Trampolining” — Tiziano Marra, Tiziano’s Cybersecurity Blog (12 July 2026). Code blocks, tables, and figures below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Research published for educational and defensive purposes. Always obtain explicit written authorization before testing security techniques on any computer system. Unauthorized access is…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cet-compliant-callstack-spoofing-thread-pool-enum/
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Forgotten UEFI Shims Undermining Secure Boot
Original text: “Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot” — Martin Smolár, ESET Research (July 14, 2026). Figures, code blocks, and technical diagrams below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
ESET researchers identified 11 old and forgotten UEFI shim bootloaders at versions 0.9 and below that can be used to bypass UEFI Secure Boot…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/forgotten-uefi-shims-undermining-secure-boot/
Original text: “Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot” — Martin Smolár, ESET Research (July 14, 2026). Figures, code blocks, and technical diagrams below are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
ESET researchers identified 11 old and forgotten UEFI shim bootloaders at versions 0.9 and below that can be used to bypass UEFI Secure Boot…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/forgotten-uefi-shims-undermining-secure-boot/
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The July 2026 Security Update Review
Original text: “The July 2026 Security Update Review” — Dustin Childs, Zero Day Initiative (July 14, 2026). Tables and figures are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
July 2026 delivered a landmark month for security patches: Adobe released 88 CVEs across twelve products via their bimonthly cycle, while Microsoft disclosed 621 vulnerabilities—a volume that…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/july-2026-security-update-review/
Original text: “The July 2026 Security Update Review” — Dustin Childs, Zero Day Initiative (July 14, 2026). Tables and figures are reproduced verbatim with attribution captions.
Executive Summary
July 2026 delivered a landmark month for security patches: Adobe released 88 CVEs across twelve products via their bimonthly cycle, while Microsoft disclosed 621 vulnerabilities—a volume that…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/july-2026-security-update-review/
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The QNAP Pattern: Four Bugs and the Architecture That Keeps Producing Them
Original text: “The QNAP Pattern” — Runic Labs (May 17, 2026). Code and architecture diagrams below are reproduced with attribution.
Executive Summary
Runic Labs disassembled a full disclosure cycle against QNAP’s QTS operating system—four bugs across three App Center plugins (Notes Station 3, QmailAgent, QVPN) spanning two firmware releases—and found that the individual vulnerabilities matter…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/qnap-pattern-architecture-vulnerabilities/
Original text: “The QNAP Pattern” — Runic Labs (May 17, 2026). Code and architecture diagrams below are reproduced with attribution.
Executive Summary
Runic Labs disassembled a full disclosure cycle against QNAP’s QTS operating system—four bugs across three App Center plugins (Notes Station 3, QmailAgent, QVPN) spanning two firmware releases—and found that the individual vulnerabilities matter…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/qnap-pattern-architecture-vulnerabilities/
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LegacyHive: The Windows User Profile Service Bug That Loads Another User’s Registry Hive
Original text: "LegacyHive — Windows user profile service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability" — Nightmare-Eclipse (GitHub handle MSNightmare), Project NightCrawler, July 14 2026. The proof-of-concept is published under the MIT License; all code below is reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
On 14 July 2026 — hours after Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday —…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/legacyhive-windows-user-profile-service-hive-load-eop/
Original text: "LegacyHive — Windows user profile service arbitrary hive load elevation of privileges vulnerability" — Nightmare-Eclipse (GitHub handle MSNightmare), Project NightCrawler, July 14 2026. The proof-of-concept is published under the MIT License; all code below is reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
On 14 July 2026 — hours after Microsoft’s July Patch Tuesday —…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/legacyhive-windows-user-profile-service-hive-load-eop/
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Reverse Engineering CVE-2026-2796: How Claude Built a Firefox WebAssembly Exploit
Original text: "Reverse engineering Claude’s CVE-2026-2796 exploit" — Evyatar Ben Asher, Keane Lucas, Nicholas Carlini, Newton Cheng, and Daniel Freeman, Anthropic Frontier Red Team (6 March 2026). The prose below is an independent technical summary; the code listings are reproduced verbatim from the source with attribution.
Executive Summary
In March 2026 Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-2796-claude-firefox-webassembly-exploit/
Original text: "Reverse engineering Claude’s CVE-2026-2796 exploit" — Evyatar Ben Asher, Keane Lucas, Nicholas Carlini, Newton Cheng, and Daniel Freeman, Anthropic Frontier Red Team (6 March 2026). The prose below is an independent technical summary; the code listings are reproduced verbatim from the source with attribution.
Executive Summary
In March 2026 Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-2796-claude-firefox-webassembly-exploit/
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CVE-2026-58635: How the Windows Narrator Braille Bug Escalates a Standard User to SYSTEM
Original text: "CVE-2026-58635: Windows Narrator Braille Local Privilege Escalation" (proof-of-concept) — DavidCarliez, GitHub (July 2026), released under the MIT License. Source code, scripts, tables and terminal output below are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
CVE-2026-58635 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in an unlikely place: the Braille accessibility component that ships with Windows Narrator. Microsoft…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58635-windows-narrator-braille-privilege-escalation/
Original text: "CVE-2026-58635: Windows Narrator Braille Local Privilege Escalation" (proof-of-concept) — DavidCarliez, GitHub (July 2026), released under the MIT License. Source code, scripts, tables and terminal output below are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
CVE-2026-58635 is a local privilege-escalation vulnerability in an unlikely place: the Braille accessibility component that ships with Windows Narrator. Microsoft…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58635-windows-narrator-braille-privilege-escalation/
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Direct $MFT Parsing: Reading NTFS Below the Monitored API Layer
Original text: “Direct $MFT Parsing” — S12 — 0x12Dark Development, on Medium. This article summarises the technique in our own words for readers of core-jmp.org; the ASCII pipeline diagram and the short C++ excerpts below are reproduced with attribution to illustrate the discussion. For the complete C++17 header, main runner, and YARA rule, follow the…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/direct-mft-parsing-ntfs-raw-enumeration/
Original text: “Direct $MFT Parsing” — S12 — 0x12Dark Development, on Medium. This article summarises the technique in our own words for readers of core-jmp.org; the ASCII pipeline diagram and the short C++ excerpts below are reproduced with attribution to illustrate the discussion. For the complete C++17 header, main runner, and YARA rule, follow the…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/direct-mft-parsing-ntfs-raw-enumeration/
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CVE-2026-58613: Use-After-Free in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver (cldflt.sys)
Original text: “Microsoft Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver CldiStreamCompleteRequest use-after-free vulnerability” — Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga, Cisco Talos (July 17, 2026). Register dumps, decompiled listings and crash logs below are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
Cisco Talos researcher Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga disclosed CVE-2026-58613, a kernel-mode use-after-free in cldflt.sys — the Windows Cloud Files Mini…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58613-cldflt-cloud-files-use-after-free/
Original text: “Microsoft Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver CldiStreamCompleteRequest use-after-free vulnerability” — Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga, Cisco Talos (July 17, 2026). Register dumps, decompiled listings and crash logs below are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
Cisco Talos researcher Marcin ‘Icewall’ Noga disclosed CVE-2026-58613, a kernel-mode use-after-free in cldflt.sys — the Windows Cloud Files Mini…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58613-cldflt-cloud-files-use-after-free/
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CVE-2026-58532: An Integer Overflow in Windows tcpip.sys
Original text: “How I found an integer overflow in tcpip.sys (CVE-2026-58532)” — April Ivy (aprilpet), April Ivy’s Writing (aprl.pet), 17 July 2026. The prose below is a paraphrase; the call stack, code snippets and proof-of-concept are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
Security researcher April Ivy discovered an unsigned 64-bit integer overflow in tcpip.sys, the…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58532-tcpip-sys-integer-overflow/
Original text: “How I found an integer overflow in tcpip.sys (CVE-2026-58532)” — April Ivy (aprilpet), April Ivy’s Writing (aprl.pet), 17 July 2026. The prose below is a paraphrase; the call stack, code snippets and proof-of-concept are reproduced verbatim with attribution.
Executive Summary
Security researcher April Ivy discovered an unsigned 64-bit integer overflow in tcpip.sys, the…
https://core-jmp.org/2026/07/cve-2026-58532-tcpip-sys-integer-overflow/
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