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Gaetan Ferry

Gaetan Ferry

Security Researcher

Rouen Area, Normandie, FR
French, English, Spanish

Background


About

About

I am a security researcher with a particular appeal for application security. With a background in offensive security I am at my happiest when breaking through all kinds of things.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Application Security Researcher, SonarSource

    Aug, 2022 - Present

    Researching and specifying security rules to feed the SAST engines of Sonar products.

    • Research the security of languages and framework to identify their weak spots and attack surface.

    • Design rules detection logics and track results precision.

    • Develop tools and proof of concepts to illustrate vulnerabilities.

  • Security expert, Synacktiv

    Sep, 2015 - Jul, 20226 years 10 months

    Penetration tester and offensive security auditor position. I was assigned a variety of missions and goals from simple web application intrusions to complex crypto protocols auditing. Other typical missions included adversary simulation, OS hardening assessment, and white-box vulnerability research. I also designed and gave training about web security and RedTeaming in Linux environment.

    • Pentest team research and development lead.

    • Offensive security tooling.

    • Applied cryptography specialist.

    • ANJ audit go-to guy.

  • Independent contractor, Rouen University

    Jan, 2016 - Jan, 20204 years

    Web application security course for last year Master degree students.

  • Security analyst intern, Intrinsec

    Mar, 2015 - Sep, 20156 months

    Security analyst inside Intrinsec CERT. Research and development around malware analysis and threat intelligence.

    • Honeypot development, deployment, and data analysis.

    • Malware analysis.

Skills

Skills

  • Offensive security

    Pentesting

    Vulnerability research

    that kind of thing (but not that much reversing / binary exploitation)

  • AppSec with an A

    Whitebox audit

    SAST

    CI/CD

    IAC

    all

  • Research

    Research mindset

    Curiosity

    Tenacity

    Publication

  • Communication

    Reporting

    Team working

    Popularization

Education

Education

  • Information System Security, Master, University of Rouen

    Sep, 2013 - Sep, 2015

    Cryptography

    Web Security

    Binary exploitation

    etc

  • Computer Sciences, Bachelor, University of Rouen

    Sep, 2010 - Sep, 2013

    Web development

    Algorithms

    etc

Publications

Publications

  • CVE-2022-31813: Forwarding addresses is hard,

    Published on: Mar 30, 2022

    Write-up about CVE-2022-31813, which exploits hop-by-hop headers handling in mod_proxy. Presentation of theoretical and real world impacts.

  • elFinder: The story of a repwning,

    Published on: Mar 30, 2022

    Write-up about CVE-2020-26960 which bypasses a previous path traversal patch.

  • Is it post quantum time yet?,

    Published on: Sep 08, 2021

    High level overview of post-quantum cryptography focusing on transition mechanisms.

  • Kubernetes namespaces isolation - what it is, what it isn't, life, universe and everything,

    Published on: Mar 27, 2021

    Presentation of kubernetes namespaces isolation, its limits, and some attack scenarios.

  • Don't fear the bark, ts_rewrite to dodge the mark,

    Published on: Nov 30, 2020

    Bypassing F5 Big IP WAF SQL injection protection using the full text search feature of PostreSQL.

  • Pwning an outdated Kibana with not so sad vulnerabilities,

    Published on: Dec 12, 2019

    Writeup about combining a LFI and a prototype pollution vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution on Kibana.

  • Attaquer un réseau Windows avec Responder, MISC Magazine

    Published on: Apr 22, 2016

    A short introduction on exploiting the multicast and broadcast name resolution mechanisms to start compromising a Windows Active Directory domain.

  • AppSeco and Juliet C# (lightning talk), Hexacon 2023

    Published on: undefined

    A lightning talk about the Juliet C# project and its use for SAST engine benchmarking.

  • Code Obfuscation 10**2+(2*a+3)%2, JSecIN'18

    Published on: undefined

    An introduction talk to code obfuscation focusing on classical technics like CFG flattening or array indexing.

  • CVE-2022-31813,

    Published on: undefined

    X-Forwarded-* header creation bypass through hop-by-hop in Apache HTTPD.

  • CVE-2022-26960,

    Published on: undefined

    Directory traversal in std42 elFinder through 2.1.60.

  • Livebox 3 - Weak password reset procedure,

    Published on: undefined

    Password reset vulnerability on the Livebox 3 device from Orange.

  • CVE-2019-1591,

    Published on: undefined

    Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Shell Escape Vulnerability

  • CVE-2019-1588,

    Published on: undefined

    Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability

  • CYBONET – PineApp Mail Secure 5.1: Multiple vulnerabilities,

    Published on: undefined

    Code execution, SQL injection, unrestricted upload and restricted shell escape in PineApp Mail Secure email filtering software.

Interests

Interests

  • Hobbies

    ChessDrawingFishinggardening
  • Sports

    JudoJJrunning