Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe
Archived August 3, 2026 Author Disclosure: I am the founder of Paraxial.io, a cybersecurity company focused on the Elixir ecosystem. The $425 million Equifax breach was an RCE in an Apache Struts application. Remember: Attacker HTTP request -> vulnerable web server Attacker now has a shell on your web server It’s not quite SSH (do some research on RCE reverse shells if you want the details), but it is the worst case scenario in terms of web application vulnerabilities.
- ▪Archived August 3, 2026 Author Disclosure: I am the founder of Paraxial.io, a cybersecurity company focused on the Elixir ecosystem.
- ▪The $425 million Equifax breach was an RCE in an Apache Struts application.
- ▪Remember: Attacker HTTP request -> vulnerable web server Attacker now has a shell on your web server It’s not quite SSH (do some research on RCE reverse shells if you want the details), but it is the worst case scenario in terms of web appl
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| Publication time | Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:45:36 +0000 |
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Security firm Safeguard.sh published an Elixir guide last month (July 2026) that tells developers to defend against untrusted deserialization with the following: # SAFE -- refuse unsafe constructs, and never create new atoms term = :erlang.binary_to_term(untrusted, [:safe]) That is a remote code execution (RCE) vector, labeled SAFE, in an AI generated SEO spam post titled “Elixir and Phoenix Security Best Practices: BEAM Footguns and the Hex Supply Chain” from security startup Safeguard.sh. Archived August 3, 2026 Author Disclosure: I am the founder of Paraxial.io, a cybersecurity company focused on the Elixir ecosystem.
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