Security researcher and penetration tester. I find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in commercial and open-source software. M.S. Cybersecurity, and CTF web-challenge author at the ISC2 New Jersey Chapter.
- 🛡️ 12 published CVEs (MITRE), credited by Apple, CISA, and the NSA
- 🎯 Bug bounty on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Google VRP, Apple Security Bounty, and Meta
- 🔎 Focus areas: SSRF, broken access control, IDOR, path traversal, source-code auditing
- 📍 Jersey City, NJ
| CVE | Target | Class | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-43763 | Apple macOS (ATS) | Sandbox file-read | 🟠 Medium |
CVE-2026-63013 | NSA skills-service | Privilege escalation | 🔴 High 8.8 |
CVE-2026-63014 | NSA skills-service | Cross-project IDOR | 🟠 Medium |
CVE-2026-63177 | CISA Malcolm | RBAC bypass | 🔴 High |
CVE-2026-63134 / 63133 | CISA Malcolm | Path traversal, DoS | 🟠 Medium |
CVE-2026-33234 | AutoGPT | SSRF via SMTP | 🟠 Medium |
CVE-2026-50023 | yt-dlp | Dangerous file creation | 🔴 High 8.3 |
CVE-2026-40585 to 40588 | BlueprintUE | Account-takeover chain | 🔴 High |
Systems tools written from scratch, each its own repo with a live page. Full set at pavanchow.github.io.
| Build | What it is |
|---|---|
| Oracle | A query language whose result is an attack path across identity and network graphs |
| Lint-Owl | A static analyzer that returns the data-flow path from source to sink |
| Unweave | An EVM bytecode disassembler that reconstructs intent and flags dangerous opcodes |
| Cipherlock | From-scratch ChaCha20-Poly1305 AEAD, proven against the RFC 8439 vectors |
| Timelace | A content-addressed version-control core, the git idea made readable |
| Trailhead | A full-text search engine with an inverted index and TF-IDF ranking |
