Lame bugs for a rainy day
Summary: PortSwigger Research argues that penetration testers often overlook or fail to report less exciting vulnerabilities once an application yields enough serious defects to justify the engagement. The piece notes that low-risk flaws presenting no threat in isolation can be chained together to compromise an application, citing RSnake's "Death By A Thousand Cuts" as a classic example.
Why it matters: The article's core claim is that individually harmless findings can be combined into full application compromise, so a report that omits the "lame" issues leaves the chaining path undocumented.
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