Jack Pan

#web

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CIT CTF 2026 · Debug Disaster: a leaky debug page and a forgotten route

Flask debug=True leaks more than tracebacks — it leaked the source code of a forgotten route that dumps .env in cleartext.

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CIT CTF 2026 · A Massive Problem: mass assignment via dict.update

The challenge name spells it out. At register time, record.update(incoming) lets the role field in the request body overwrite the hard-coded default.

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CIT CTF 2026: a few writeups worth keeping

I played CIT CTF 2026 over the holiday — this is the index post for a short series of writeups covering Web, Crypto and Misc challenges.

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CIT CTF 2026 · Server Components: RCE via Next.js 15 RSC deserialization

package.json pins next@15.0.4 — squarely inside the window for this year's React Server Components deserialization RCE.

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