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by throwawaygo 1298 days ago
This is the new threat vector. AI copy pasta. Gonna make pen test research way more fun. Just describe the website you’re at and read the source code.
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Can it work to identify vulnerabilities? For instance, if you feed it code and ask it to find the vulnerability and provide a description of the issue?
Kind of; here's a couple of (somewhat related) examples:

- Solidity contract bug: https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1598104835848798208?s=20

- Simple JS bug: https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/1598269697371185153?s=...

- Buffer overflow (though ChatGPT generated this one as a code example, and explains it): https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/1598269719202521088?s=...

- Explaining worst case bubble sort: https://twitter.com/bentossell/status/1598269721882681344?s=...

- Fixing a Kubernetes file: https://twitter.com/PhilipZe9/status/1598303853719560196?s=2...

"in the style of a fast-talkin' wise guy from a 1940's gangster movie" is hilarious - I'm going to steal this and try other things to see what it gets me
Here's a relatively simple example where it identifies and explains a buffer overflow: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1598081204846489600
That will lower the barrier to entry for attackers. The script kiddy equivalent of the AI age.