Blog Research and news from the Veria team.
Securing Open Source: Better Auth A race condition in Better Auth's SSO plugin leads to account takeover. Hacking a16z: Breaking Jolt and Dory How our agent found a full proof forgery in Jolt, a16z's zkVM. A Technical Breakdown of Jolt's Cryptography (and the exploit) The mathematics of the missing Dory commitments behind the Jolt exploit. How Veria AI Found an Arbitrary Proof Forgery in Aleo How a weak Fiat-Shamir transcript allowed arbitrary transaction forgery on Aleo, and earned us a $65,000 bounty. Pwning Pydantic's Monty: A $5K Sandbox Escape Pydantic offered $5,000 to escape Monty, their Rust-built Python sandbox for AI agents. We chained two GC bugs into a use-after-free and walked away with the bounty. Securing Open Source Part 2: Cracking Kraken Malicious dApps can impersonate trusted apps and disguise Solana transactions as harmless message signatures, allowing potential fund theft when chained together. Securing Open Source Part 1: Goose 1-Click RCE We found a 1-click RCE in Block's Goose AI agent: any website could silently execute commands on your machine. Announcing our $3.2M Seed Round We spun out of the #1 hacking team in the US and raised a $3.2M seed to make getting hacked a thing of the past. Breaking FRI in Eigen's zkVM How missing index checks in FRI allow full proof forgery in Eigen's zkVM.