Lessons from MongoBleed, CWE Top 25, and Secure Coding Benchmarks – ASW #366
MongoBleed and a recent OWASP CRS bypass show how parsing problems remain a source of security flaws regardless of programming language. We talk with Kalyani Pawar about how these problems rank against the Top 25 CWEs for 2025 and what it means for relying on LLMs to generate code.
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Mike Shema
- CVE-2026-21876: Critical Multipart Charset Bypass Fixed in CRS 4.22.0 and 3.3.8
- MongoBleed: Critical MongoDB Vulnerability CVE-2025-14847 | Wiz Blog
Are you parsing something or compressing something? Because those are two areas that seem to be rife with vulns.
- 2025 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
Check out CISA's overview of the list, too.
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