Research Worth Reading Week 11/2025

Published: 16 Mar 2025

What a week! SAML&Ruby, PHP&XXE and so much more!

📨 Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials

Two of my favorite things (Ruby and SAML) meet again, and another great vulnerability in ruby-saml: Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials.

💻 What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity

A great article on what makes code hard to read. There's a lot of content related to code review in this blog as well, so make sure you check it out: What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity.

🤯 Impossible XXE in PHP

The team at ptsecurity is on fire at the moment. A great PHP/XXE tour de force: Impossible XXE in PHP. It is worth reading just for the LIBXML_NONET part...

😻 Analysis of CVE-2025-24813 Apache Tomcat Path Equivalence RCE

If you want to better understand the details of the latest RCE in Tomcat, make sure to read this post: Analysis of CVE-2025-24813 Apache Tomcat Path Equivalence RCE

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