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Someone finds it first. Make sure it's us.

CyberFortify Labs digs out the vulnerabilities others miss, then works with the people who build the software to get them fixed before they're ever weaponized. Any codebase, any language, any stack. Quietly. Responsibly. Obsessively.

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Coordinated disclosure

The software nobody audits is the software everybody trusts.

The big platforms have ten thousand researchers crawling over them. Everything else, the software quietly running businesses, homes and entire industries, has no one looking at all. That gap is where real people get hurt, and closing it is what drives us.

We get hands on the real thing, break it, and hand over a fix, not a headline. When we publish, we write it so the people who run the software can understand exactly what was at stake.

Research // Coordinated_disclosures

What we publish.

Every finding is reported to the vendor first and made public only once operators can protect themselves. Advisories post here as each disclosure clears its window.

CFL-2026-001
Broken access control exposed customer records in a member portal
An unprivileged account could read and alter another tenant's records by ID.
WEB APPCRITICALCOORDINATING
CFL-2026-002
Privilege escalation in a self-hosted management console
A low-privilege user could reach host-level administrative functions.
SELF-HOSTEDHIGHFIXED
CFL-2026-003
Hardcoded database credentials in a legacy Windows business app
Static credentials recovered from the binary granted direct backend access.
LEGACY SOFTWAREHIGHDISCLOSED
CFL-2026-004
Unauthenticated API leaked client data on a booking platform
A public endpoint returned personal details without a session.
VERTICAL SAASMEDIUMFIXED

Based on real findings from our research and the fixes that followed. Select any advisory for a quick overview.


Where_we_hunt

The blind spots the industry skips.

Every target we take maps to a world we already understand deeply, because the best research comes from context nobody else has bothered to earn.

01

Vertical SaaS

The practice-management and back-office suites an entire profession runs on, where one auth gap exposes every client's most sensitive records.

02

Self-hosted control planes

The control planes and admin consoles behind self-hosted appliances and gateways. We go after the trust boundaries, container isolation and the host-level blast radius when a low-privilege corner reaches too far.

03

Legacy desktop & client-server apps

The thick-client business software still running the back office long after everyone else moved to the cloud. Hardcoded secrets, fat-client trust, and backends reachable by anyone with the installer.

04

Purpose-built industry systems

The operational systems built for a single trade, wired together on-site and leaned on every day. No security team ever owned them, because outside that industry nobody knew they existed.

05

Small-vendor & regional software

Products from shops too small to fund a security program, shipping to a loyal base that assumes someone is checking the locks. Usually no one is.

06

Abandoned & orphaned software

Tools still in daily use after the vendor moved on, where nobody's minding the store and users have nowhere to turn.


How_we_disclose

Coordinated, every time.

We only test software we legally possess and run in our own lab, or systems inside an authorized program. We report first and publish last. The goal is a fix, not a scare.

01 / REPORT

Vendor first

We reach the vendor privately with a full write-up and a working reproduction, before anyone else hears a word.

02 / COORDINATE

Work the fix

We stay hands-on through triage and remediation, and give more time to teams acting in good faith.

03 / PROTECT

Users first

Nothing goes public until operators can protect themselves: a patch, a mitigation, or a clear path forward.

04 / PUBLISH

Tell it plainly

We publish a readable advisory and request a CVE, so the people who run the software understand what was at stake.

90-day standard disclosure window.Read the full disclosure policy →
Work_with_labs

Every system has a weak point. Let's find yours before someone else does.

If you build or operate something people trust, an early look from the lab is the cheapest security you'll ever buy. Bring us the stack you're worried about and we'll show you where it breaks.