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Used Claude to audit our entire API surface — found 3 critical vulns
SecurityResearcher May 8, 2026
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Fed our OpenAPI spec and relevant source files to Claude and asked for a security review. It identified: 1) An IDOR vulnerability in our user profile endpoint, 2) A timing attack vector in our token validation, 3) Missing rate limiting on our password reset flow. All three were legitimate, exploitable vulnerabilities that our automated scanners missed. Paid for the entire year of API access in one conversation.
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