The Shellshock vulnerability - #20

Welcome to Learning at Lambert Labs session #20. This week, Tom discusses the Shellshock vulnerability, an exploit which allowed arbitrary code execution on target machines.

In today’s Learning session:

  • What is the Shellshock vulnerability, and which technologies did it affect?
  • A discussion of the Bash command interpreter and a little about how it works
  • An overview of environment functions and how they were exploited
  • Live demonstration of the exploit in Django
  • Using a reverse shell to assist with the exploit
  • Q&A from our developers!

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  • Security
  • Django
  • Python
  • Development
  • Software Engineering