Episode 77: Bug Bounty Mental - Practical Tips for Staying Sharp & Motivated

Episode 77: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast Joel and Justin discuss some fresh writeups including some MongoDB injections, ORMs, and exploits in Kakao and iOS before pivoting into a conversation about staying motivated and avoiding burnout while hunting.

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Resources:

MongoDB NoSQL Injection

https://soroush.me/blog/2024/06/mongodb-nosql-injection-with-aggregation-pipelines/

Mongo DB Is Web Scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

1-click Exploit in Kakao

https://stulle123.github.io/posts/kakaotalk-account-takeover/

Unsecure time-based secret and Sandwich Attack

https://www.aeth.cc/public/Article-Reset-Tolkien/secret-time-based-article-en.html

Reset Tolkien

https://github.com/AethliosIK/reset-tolkien

iOS URL Scheme Hijacking Revamped

https://evanconnelly.github.io/post/ios-oauth/

PLORMBING YOUR DJANGO ORM

https://www.elttam.com/blog/plormbing-your-django-orm/#content

Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:02:07) MongoDB NoSQL Injection

(00:12:42) 1-click Exploit in Kakao

(00:33:21) Time-based secrets and Reset Tolkien

(00:39:26) iOS URL Scheme Hijacking Revamped

(00:51:42) ORMs

(00:58:57) Community Bug Submission

(01:07:45) Motivation, Mental Sharpness, and Burnout avoidance