Preliminary research

L3akCTF 2026 "Squid": racing `/proc/self/fd` symlinks against Flask `send_file`

Jorian Woltjer · Jorian Woltjer

AI-collected research leads through 6 October 2026, including bounded month-by-month reviews of selected social and community sources from January through September. Unranked, incomplete, not community-vetted, and subject to change.

Solves a Flask file-disclosure challenge by racing recycled procfs file descriptors between stat and open. A regular file supplies a nonzero length before an environment file replaces it, bypassing response-length suppression for zero-size procfs entries without requiring attacker-controlled filesystem writes.

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Researcher

Jorian Woltjer

Published by

Jorian Woltjer

In the archive

• Collected in the 2026 preliminary research sweep

Related sources

• ujson parser differential advisory

Tags

• toctou
• race-condition
• lfi
• python
• flask
• info-leak
• owasp-a01-2021
• owasp-a03-2021
• owasp-a04-2021

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