Sam Pizzey

Security Engineer
Sam Pizzey is a Security Engineer at Intruder with over 14 years of experience specializing in Linux system administration and web application security. In his current role, he leverages his deep technical expertise to enhance automated scanning capabilities and defend complex environments against emerging threats.

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Is Looney Tunables [CVE-2023-4911] as bad as everyone says?

Is Looney Tunables [CVE-2023-4911] as bad as everyone says?

Grab security updates for your Linux distributions because there's a security hole that can be easily exploited by rogue users, intruders, & malicious software to gain root access.
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Gaslight, Gatekeep, Get Root. Finding a Plesk RCE in an afternoon by lying to AI

LLMs give up early when hunting bugs. So we lied to one about a breach that never happened, and it found an auth bypass 0-day in Plesk.

A 0-day vending machine: No Mythos necessary

This post details how we are using LLMs to find novel vulnerabilities using code scanning frameworks alongside pre-Mythos models.

AI Vibe Coding: When Convenience Turns Into a Security Liability

When we used AI to help code a honeypot, it introduced a vulnerability of its own. What transpired was a fascinating, if uncomfortable, lesson in AI complacency - how easily trust in automation can make us miss what’s right in front of us. We share what we learned and what it means for anyone using AI to code.

CVE-2025-30406: Investigating a CVSS Score That Didn’t Add Up

CVE-2025-30406 was added to CISA’s KEV list after being exploited in the wild. When we spotted a discrepancy between the vendor’s CVSS score (9.0) and NVD’s rating (9.8), we investigated to understand the real risk: how easily could an attacker obtain the machine keys and use them to exploit the vulnerability? Read on for the full breakdown.

Path Traversal and Code Execution in CSLA.NET (CVE-2024-28698)

CSLA.NET is a framework that helps structure business logic for .NET applications into re-usable objects, and share those objects between systems. During a penetration test last year, we discovered an interesting path traversal vulnerability affecting applications using this framework. Read on for a technical explanation of how this vulnerability works.