Sam Shute

Director (Offensive Security Services)

As a Technical Director at Bastion Security, Sam has a wide range of experience, from teaching students to practical exploitation, and research.

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Highlights

Career highlights

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Currently Sam's areas of focus include Red Teaming, Hardware Hacking, and Biometrics. During his time at Bastion Security (and previously Quantum Security) Sam has enjoyed compromising the networks of most major banks, government departments, and infrastructure providers in the country.

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Access Token Exposure in URL Parameters in GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server - (CVE-2026-12620)

During a security engagement, Leo Diamat discovered that the GridTime 3000 GNSS Time Server web application transmitted session access tokens via URL query string parameters on multiple endpoints.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability on Several Endpoints by Utilising Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in GridTime™ 3000 GNSS Time Server - (CVE-2026-12619)

During a security engagement, Leo Diamat discovered that multiple endpoints in the GridTime 3000 GNSS Time Server web application were vulnerable to reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via an unsanitised token parameter.

PHP-FPM (PHP Source) - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CVE-2026-6735)

During a security engagement, Conrad Draper discovered a stored XSS vulnerability in the PHP-FPM status endpoint which was due to a lack of input sanitisation of the request URI. This affects the request URI when displaying stored content.

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