Course 39 - NodeJS Security Pentesting and Exploitation | Episode 2: Mitigating RCE, OS Injection, and Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

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In this lesson, you’ll learn about: critical Node.js vulnerabilities caused by unsafe user input handling, including RCE, command injection, XSS, and directory traversal1. Core Security Principle🔹 Key idea:Never trust user input👉 Any data from users must be treated as hostile by defaultWithout validation, it can become a direct execution path into the s…

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In this lesson, you’ll learn about: critical Node.js vulnerabilities caused by unsafe user input handling, including RCE, command injection, XSS, and directory traversal1. Core Security Principle🔹 Key idea:Never trust user input👉 Any data from users must be treated as hostile by defaultWithout validation, it can become a direct execution path into the system.2. Remote Code Execution (RCE) via eval()🔹 Dangerous functions:eval()setTimeout()setInterval()new Function()🔹 Why they are riskyThese f

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