ZeroPath Blog & Research
Explore our team's latest research and stay up to date with ZeroPath's capabilities.
Insights
•2026-03-05
•8 min read
How Aptos Labs Scales Application Security Across 1M+ Lines of Rust with AI-Powered SAST
How Aptos Labs automated security testing across 70 engineers, accelerated vulnerability discovery by 8x, and saved 20+ hours per week with AI-powered SAST on Rust codebases.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2026-04-28
•7 min read
CVE-2026-42167 Allows Auth Bypass And RCE In ProFTPD
ZeroPath Research discovered a SQL injection in ProFTPD's mod_sql extension (CVE-2026-42167) that can allow remote code execution, authentication bypass, and privilege escalation depending on configuration — exploitable pre-auth in some cases. Affects ProFTPD <= 1.3.9; patched in 1.3.9a.
John Walker
Research
•2026-05-07
•6 min read
CVE-2026-39816 Allows Privesc And Code Execution In Apache NiFi
ZeroPath Research discovered CVE-2026-39816 in Apache NiFi: when the optional nifi-other-graph-services-nar bundle is installed, authenticated users without the EXECUTE_CODE privilege can run arbitrary code on the NiFi server via ExecuteGraphQuery against a TinkerPop target. Affects NiFi >= 2.0.0-M1 and < 2.9.0; patched in 2.9.0.
John Walker
Product
•2024-11-01
•15 min read
How ZeroPath Works
Technical deep-dive into ZeroPath's SAST methodology: From AST generation to AI-powered vulnerability discovery and automated patch generation.
Raphael Karger
Research
•2026-04-20
•12 min read
Critical Spinnaker Vulns Allow RCE And Production Compromise
ZeroPath Research discovered two separate RCE vulnerabilities in Spinnaker (CVE-2026-32604 and CVE-2026-32613) that let low-privilege authenticated users execute code on Clouddriver and Echo, enabling credential theft and pivots into production cloud environments.
John Walker
Research
•2026-04-02
•10 min read
Benchmarking Opus 4.6 For Vuln Detection: Flashes Of Brilliance But Lots of Noise
We tested Opus 4.6 against 435 known vulnerable C functions from real CVEs. With good prompting and tools, it found up to 28.5% of vulnerabilities — impressive compared to human review, but with high false positive rates and inconsistency that underline the need for more sophisticated systems.
John Walker
Security Research
•2026-04-09
•10 min read
Unpatched RAGFlow Vulnerability Allows Post-Auth RCE
A currently-unpatched vulnerability in RAGFlow 0.24 allows low-privilege authenticated users to execute arbitrary code on instances using Infinity for chunk storage. We walk through the discovery, exploitation, and our disclosure process.
John Walker
Research
•2026-03-02
•7 min read
ZeroPath Exploit Development CTFs
Learn to exploit complex real-world vulnerabilities with zeropath-ctf, a set of self-contained exploit development exercises based on CVEs from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list, powered by ZeroPath's shapeshifter vulnerability generation suite.
John Walker
Insights
•2026-05-19
•10 min read
AI Coding Assistants Are Not a SAST Program
AI coding assistants can catch narrow, inner-loop security issues, but they do not replace full-codebase coverage, stable issue tracking, workflow integrations, and broader AppSec controls.
ZeroPath Team
Product
•2026-05-11
•3 min read
ZeroPath Outperforms Mythos In Real World Test
When Anthropic's Mythos-powered Glasswing scanner re-analyzed curl, it surfaced one low-severity bug — months after ZeroPath helped Joshua Rogers ship fixes for nearly 170. The harness around the model matters more than the model itself.
John Walker
Research
•2026-03-18
•15 min read
ZeroPath's 36 Sudo Bug Fixes Reduce CrackArmor's Impact
One of ZeroPath's 36 sudo security fixes was rediscovered in Qualys' CrackArmor vulnerability. We share the full list of fixes, including POC for a previously-unpublished RCE targeting sudo's optional log server.
John Walker
Insights
•2026-03-04
•25 min read
7 Best SAST Tools in 2026: Detailed Guide for AppSec Engineers and CISOs
We compared the 7 best SAST tools of 2026 side-by-side. Pricing, features, false positive rates, enterprise readiness and more for AppSec engineers and CISOs.
ZeroPath Team
Insights
•2026-02-26
•8 min read
Why Commenda Chose ZeroPath to Secure Their Global Tax Platform
How Commenda's CTO runs a complete security program, finding 4× more real vulnerabilities including business logic bugs no legacy scanner catches, in a couple hours per week without dedicated security headcount.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2026-02-02
•5 min read
Malicious Websites Can Exploit Openclaw (aka Clawdbot) To Steal Credentials
Openclaw (aka Clawdbot) delivers impressive AI experiences but malicious websites can abuse it to steal your credentials
John Walker
Research
•2025-12-02
•15 min read
Autonomously Finding 7 FFmpeg Vulnerabilities With AI
ZeroPath's AI-assisted SAST analyzed FFmpeg and reported seven distinct memory safety flaws, including buffer overflows and invalid memory writes, missed by traditional tools.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2025-11-18
•8 min read
Avahi Simple Protocol Server DoS (CVE-2025-59529)
A logic flaw in Avahi Simple Protocol Server ignored the configured client limit, allowing any user to open unlimited connections and exhaust memory and file descriptors, causing a system-wide denial of service for mDNS and DNS-SD.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2025-11-05
•5 min read
7 vulnerabilities in django-allauth enabling account impersonation and token abuse
Our audit of django-allauth uncovered seven vulnerabilities, including two that enable user impersonation and others affecting token handling, email verification, and HTTP configuration. We detail how our AI-assisted scanner exposed these logic-level issues, the patches applied, and what developers should do to secure their authentication flows.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2025-10-21
•10 min read
How ZeroPath's AI Code Scanner Won Over the curl Project with 170 Valid Bug Reports
ZeroPath's AI-based static analyzer uncovered 170 verified issues in curl, from C footguns to logic and RFC compliance bugs across HTTP/3, SMTP, IMAP, TFTP, Telnet, and SSH/SFTP, with curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg praising the quality -- proof that AI source code analyzers can produce high-quality findings even in the curl project, not just AI slop.
ZeroPath Team
Research
•2025-10-19
•9 min read
Critical Account Takeover via Unauthenticated API Key Creation in better-auth (CVE-2025-61928)
ZeroPath uncovered an unauthenticated API key creation flaw in better-auth's API keys plugin that enables attackers to mint privileged credentials for arbitrary users; this post details the bypass, exploitation path, and how we found it.
Etienne Lunetta
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