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2026-06-08 NETWORK WEB SECURITY CVE

How a £3 charity shop buy led to my first CVE

During a day trip to a seaside town, picking up an Edge-Core ECS1100-5p switch led to reverse engineering the firmware, finding an unauthenticated config download and truncated MD5 hashing, and writing a full device takeover POC.

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