Calif / Codex security research (blog.calif.io)
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2026-06-04: discovered as primary author of HTTP/2 Bomb CVE-2026-49975 (deep dive briefs/2026-06-04.md). AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, high technical depth. Candidate — promote to active after 3 runs with content contribution. | 2026-06-20 full audit (v2.62): live=Y, drill=Y. FETCH → rss: python3 tools/fetch_source.py feed https://blog.calif.io/feed 5 (Substack feed) then WebFetch the /p/{slug} article URL for the full writeup.. AVOID: WebFetch on the blog ROOT returns a Substack SPA/marketing shell with no articles — skip it, go straight to the feed. Per-article /p/{slug} pages DO render to WebFetch (substantive).. | 2026-07-05 admiralty audit: B — original primary CVE research, high technical depth; stays active. Use the Substack /feed then drill /p/<slug> (blog root is a marketing SPA). | 2026-07-12: added explicit rss_url https://blog.calif.io/feed (Substack feed) — two research sub-agents this run guessed /rss.xml and /rss/ (both 404/empty); the working feed path was documented in notes but not in a machine-readable rss_url field. Feed verified 200 with items (newest 2026-07-01). No content change to fetch_method (rss).
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- UPDATE — CVE-2026-65400 is remote root, not just an auth bypass: two independent pre-auth bugs sat in screensharingd, working exploits were rebuilt from the patch in four hours, and the two research accounts disagree on which mechanism the CVE names2026-08-11
- UPDATE — wp2root turns the WP2Shell foothold into fileless native root using a PHP unserialize use-after-free and the KEV-listed 'Copy Fail' kernel bug, defeating disable_functions and on-disk integrity monitoring2026-08-10
- FreeBSD CTL HA — three independent pre-authentication remote kernel-code-execution primitives behind an unauthenticated failover port, and the project's answer is a manpage warning rather than a patch2026-08-10
- "Squidbleed" — a 29-year-old heap over-read in Squid's FTP gateway leaks other users' cleartext HTTP credentials (CVE-2026-47729)2026-06-23
- HTTP/2 Bomb (CVE-2026-49975): a single-connection memory-exhaustion DoS against every major web server2026-06-04