Research Worth Reading Week 47/2025

Published: 23 Nov 2025

Articles worth reading discovered last week. This week feels like a giant "how to find your own CVE"...

๐Ÿค– An Evening with Claude (Code)

A great write-up on finding CVE-2025-64755 impacting Claude Code. A mix of strategy and practical tricks to get started, and probably enough to help some readers find their own vulnerability: https://specterops.io/blog/2025/11/21/an-evening-with-claude-code/

โ˜•๏ธ Gotchas in Email Parsing โ€” Lessons From Jakarta Mail

Another excellent post from Jia in the elttam team. It covers subtle traps in email parsing impacting Java, many of which apply easily to other languages as well: https://www.elttam.com/blog/jakarta-mail-primitives/. A great resource to keep handy if you are auditing applications that deal with emails ๐Ÿ˜œ

๐Ÿ” We Found Cryptography Bugs in the Elliptic Library Using Wycheproof

A blog post showing how "just" leveraging Wycheproof test vectors can lead directly to CVEs: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/18/we-found-cryptography-bugs-in-the-elliptic-library-using-wycheproof/

๐Ÿ”ฎ Breaking Oracleโ€™s Identity Manager: Pre-Auth RCE (CVE-2025-61757)

Adam and Shubs share a pre-auth RCE in Oracle Identity Manager. Beyond the vulnerability itself, the attentive reader will pick up several key tricks between the lines: https://slcyber.io/research-center/breaking-oracles-identity-manager-pre-auth-rce/

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