Blog · page 17
Notes on engineering, design, and everything in between.
Cisco FMC unauthenticated Java deserialisation RCE: CVE-2026-20131
CVSS 10.0, no authentication, code execution as root, and 36 days of use as a zero-day by a ransomware crew. Breaking the firewall management hub hands over every policy and log with it.
Pushing first-load JS to zero with Astro islands
From "async import" to "hydrate on demand" — what each of the three lazy-loading layers actually solves, with the code that runs on this site.
Next.js incremental cache path traversal to RCE: CVE-2026-75604
One unescaped backslash turns the incremental cache into arbitrary file read and write on Windows, and the leaked Server Action encryption key forges a request that walks a React Flight property chain to Function.
React Router prototype pollution chained into RCE: CVE-2026-42211
turbo-stream v2 calls a constructor while rehydrating the TYPE_ERROR branch without checking where it came from. If the app already has a prototype pollution bug, that path reaches Function and two moderate flaws become RCE.
One source for head: SiteHead, JSON-LD escaping and hreflang
All three HTML shells render one component that emits every head tag, with the data assembled on the server. Plus a detail worth remembering: angle brackets in JSON-LD must be escaped.
Shipping a static site is not "upload the folder": caching, compression, honest 404s
Almost every static-hosting bug lives in response headers. Which files may be cached forever, which may not be cached at all, and why a static site must never use an SPA fallback.