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Sirat Sami, CEO & Lead Penetration Tester at codéjà Vu
Leadership & Security Delivery

Sirat Sami

@analyz3r

CEO & Lead Penetration Tester

10+ years in cybersecurity and bug bounty hunting. Reported 200+ vulnerabilities including 50+ high and critical severity issues across 130+ companies, among them Slack, the U.S. Department of Defense, Sony, PlayStation, Snapchat, TikTok, Amazon, Zoom, and GitLab. Attended the H1-4420 live hacking event in London.

Penetration TestingBug BountyWeb Application SecurityClient Delivery
Public research record

Selected research acknowledgements

Published work

Research by Sirat Sami

RESEARCH BRIEF
3 min readA Report With 50 Comments Took Down HackerOne (2,500$ Bounty)

An uncapped PDF export let a single low-volume attacker degrade HackerOne's global response times — and nearly didn't get rewarded for finding it.

August 26, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
3 min readDoubling Throughput: Bypassing Endpoint Rate-Limiting via Path Traversal Slashing

The rate limiter counted `/login` and `/login/` separately while the application routed both to one handler—doubling permitted authentication traffic from a single IP.

June 6, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
3 min readUnintended Exposure: How Slack Connect Quietly Defaulted to Open Signups ($1,750 Bounty)

A Slack Connect provisioning path silently enabled approved-domain signup on new workspaces, exposing supposedly isolated collaboration spaces to unintended insiders.

June 6, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
2 min readFrom Tool Testing to Data Rescue: Exposing a 4GB Cloud Backup Leak

A routine Skybrute test uncovered a public 4GB enterprise Slack backup spanning ten years—and the affected team closed the exposure within 30 minutes.

June 6, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
3 min readChaining Low-Severity Flaws into Critical Privilege Escalation, Hijacking Invites

An unverified identity and an invitation token that was not bound to its recipient combined into vertical privilege escalation and workspace takeover.

June 6, 2026Read brief
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH
4 min readMastering Race Conditions: Two Methods for Bypassing Email Verification

Two different concurrency bugs broke the same identity guarantee: one raced an invitation against an email change, while the other applied a valid token to the wrong active address.

June 6, 2026Open case study
RESEARCH BRIEF
3 min readInfiltrating Enterprise Slack Workspaces via Expired Domain Signups

An expired domain can outlive its ownership inside an enterprise signup allowlist, turning an abandoned DNS asset into a trusted workspace identity.

June 6, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
2 min readBypassing Slack’s Invite Acceptance via Role Modification ($1,500 Bounty)

Two role changes pushed a pending Slack invitation into an active-member state—joining a user to a workspace without acceptance or consent.

June 6, 2026Read brief
RESEARCH BRIEF
2 min readHow Stripping a Header Bypassed an OAuth Proxy

What began as HTTP request-smuggling research exposed a far simpler fail-open proxy rule: omit one header and the protected administrative login appeared.

June 6, 2026Read brief