Sachin Patil — AI-Driven Vulnerability Security Researcher

• Azure Pipelines Agent — Arbitrary File Write to RCE Chain

  • Status: Important Severity.
  • Vector: Arbitrary file write vulnerability enabling a Remote Code Execution (RCE) chain.

• Microsoft Edge — Elevation of Privilege (EoP) & Arbitrary File Deletion to SYSTEM

  • Status: Critical Severity.
  • Vector: Leading to Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and arbitrary file deletion via a confused deputy attack.

• Hall of Fame: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/acknowledgement/online

Research writeups, CVE analyses & methodology breakdowns — Published on Medium & InfoSec Write-ups

🔴 CVE Technical Write-ups

📄 Bypassing a Security Patch (CVE-2026-24884)

📄 How We Bypassed an Axios Patch (CVE-2026-42043)

📄 Zero-Day to SYSTEM (RCE): Escaping AWS ECS Containers via OS Command Injection CVE-2026–7461

📄 Beyond the Digits: The Emotional Rollercoaster of My First CVE

🧠 AI & Offensive Security Research

📄 Hacking the Brain of AI: Prompt Injection Methodologies in LLMs

📄 Prompt Playbooks: AI Crime-as-a-Service is Booming on the Dark Web

📄 AI Hallucinations Explained — Why They Happen & Can We Reach 0%?

📄 The AI Governance Gap: Why 77% of Companies Use AI but Only 37% Have a Policy

🌐 Threat Intelligence & Industry Analysis

📄 Nation-State Hackers & Geopolitics: Why 64% of Orgs Fear Espionage

📄 The 2027 Prediction: When Cyberattacks Become Fully Autonomous

📄 The CVE Program Crisis: When the Vulnerability Database Becomes Vulnerable

📄 Q-Day is Coming: How Quantum Computing Will Redefine Offensive Security

🎯 Career & Methodology

📄 Bug Bounty vs Pentesting: A Unique Hybrid Methodology for Both Worlds

📄 The 2026 Cybersecurity Certification Trap: Why Paper Credentials Are Failing

Research Focus:

Research Domain	Proficiency	Core Focus Areas
Open-Source Research		Node.js Libraries, Microsoft & Google OSS, Internet-to-Code
Windows Internals		Symlink Poisoning, Directory Junctions, Patch Diffing
Web App Security		Logic Flaws, SSRF, LLM Prompt Injection
Cloud (Azure/AWS)		ECS Agent Exploits, Container Orchestration
Binary & Fuzzing		Ghidra MCP, WinAFL, Reverse Engineering

Security Analyst (Nov 2021 - Present)

• Vulnerability Triage & Remediation: Managed and resolved 300+ security vulnerabilities reported via HackerOne, ensuring end-to-end remediation by collaborating with engineering teams.
• Risk Exposure Reduction: Reduced critical risk exposure by 60% through consistent patching and strategic mitigations across web applications and infrastructure.
• Compliance & Audits: Led infrastructure security audits (internal/external), ensuring compliance with PCI-DSS and GDPR.
• Security Automation: Automated vulnerability scanning using Qualys and tracked remediation via JIRA, achieving a 40% closure rate for high-risk findings.
• Stakeholder Reporting & Training: Authored detailed security reports for stakeholders and trained development teams on secure coding practices, specifically focusing on the OWASP Top 10.

• AWS High-Severity — CVE-2026-7461

  Discovered and reported a critical Remote Command Injection vulnerability within the Amazon Web Services ECS Agent. https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/2026-024-aws/

• Microsoft MSRC — 2x Hall of Fame

  Acknowledged for deep logic flaw hunting, Zero-Day RCE research, and identifying confused deputy attacks across Azure and Edge platforms. https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/acknowledgement/online

• Node.js Ecosystem — CVE-2026-40931 (compressing library)

  Discovered a high-impact path traversal and symlink poisoning vulnerability enabling filesystem escapes and arbitrary file write. https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4c3q-x735-j3r5

• Axios HTTP Client — CVE-2026-42043

  Identified and reported a high-severity Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability within the Axios HTTP client logic. https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pmwg-cvhr-8vh7