Every CVE is a lesson. Every patch is a teacher.

Thousands of vulnerabilities are published each year... most disappear into databases unread. That's a missed opportunity, because buried in those advisories is the accumulated wisdom of the security community.

CVE Archeologist's Field Guide dissects 10 real-world vulnerabilities across 17 years and 5 programming languages. No theory. Just real bugs from real codebases: WordPress, JWT libraries, SAML implementations, and more.

Inside:
• Cookie forgery via missing separators (WordPress)
• Insecure randomness despite using crypto/rand (Go)
• XPath injection escalating to code execution (Ruby SAML)
• Authentication bypasses in error handling (Go)
• Type juggling attacks on authentication (PHP/MySQL)
• ...

Each chapter: Introduction, The Code, The Bug, The Fix, Lessons Learned.

The final chapters teach the methodology: finding advisories, extracting patches, hunting for patterns across projects and languages.

For: Security researchers, penetration testers, AppSec engineers, and developers who want to stop making the same mistakes.

You don't become a great code reviewer by reading about security. You become one by reading code. The fossils are everywhere. Start digging.

From PentesterLab: hands-on security training since 2012.