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HO-9/README.md

Chanho Kim (Ho-9)

Security Researcher

Profile

I research software vulnerabilities, application security, and practical threat hunting. My interests include vulnerability analysis, security tooling, UEFI security, web hacking, malware analysis, and AI-assisted security research.

Skills

  • System Hacking
  • Web Hacking
  • Vulnerability Analysis
  • Malware Analysis
  • Threat Hunting
  • AI / LLM
  • C / Python / Java / SQL

Experience

Organization Role Period
H3XOR Security Researcher 2018.07 – 2019.07
Republic of Korea Army Special Forces CERT Team 2020.07 – 2022.01
KITRI Best of the Best (BoB) 11th Vulnerability Analysis 2022.07 – 2023.03
Ai-Ver.se Labs Senior Researcher 2023.02 – Present

Research Projects

UEFI Exploitation Fuzzer Project · 2022.07 – 2022.12

Node.js Vulnerability Analysis · 2023.04 – 2023.09

  • ReDoS vulnerability detection tool trend analysis and improvement research — CISC-W'23 Outstanding Paper Award
  • Node.js package vulnerability analysis through prototype pollution pattern research — CISC-W'23
  • Disclosures across Node.js packages including CVE-2023-45827, CVE-2024-23339, and CVE-2024-27088

Achievements / Awards

  • Codegate Junior 2018 — Finalist
  • BYU CTF — 2nd place, team Budaejjigae
  • CISC-W'23 — Outstanding Paper Award
  • KISA Practical Cyber Training Center — Threat Hunting instructor, 2023

Disclosed Vulnerabilities

HackerOne

  • #3639103 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

FindTheGap

  • FVE-2024-5b89-188 — XSS Using meta tag
  • FVE-2024-5b89-127 — Admin page Misconfiguration
  • FVE-2024-5b89-64 — Self-XSS

CVE / GHSA

Product Vulnerability identifier(s)
Firefox CVE-2026-6778
Nvidia CVE-2026-24189
Samsung CVE-2023-30738 · SVE-2023-0437
Next.js CVE-2026-64646
Node CVE-2026-1526
OpenSSL CVE-2026-28390
Electron CVE-2026-34765
libssh CVE-2026-59844
PHP CVE-2025-1218
Insyde CVE-2023-27471 · SA-2023036
n8n CVE-2026-59253
MSI CVE-2026-82908
jq CVE-2026-33948 · CVE-2026-39979
capnproto CVE-2026-32240 · CVE-2026-32239
Mailspring GHSA-pj5m-wc7c-mwhg · GHSA-px2g-jhg5-c6gh · GHSA-83gr-g8q8-fw32
NanaZip CVE-2026-27711 · CVE-2026-27710 · CVE-2026-27709
backnet-stack CVE-2026-26265
dot-diver CVE-2023-45827
get-func-name CVE-2023-43646
hoolock CVE-2024-23339
es5-ext CVE-2024-27088
fprime GHSA-grhx-8h8f-j7fm

CTF

  • Codegate Junior 2018 Finals
  • BYU CTF 2023 — 2nd place, team Budaejjigae
  • Other CTF participation and security competitions since 2018

Bug Bounty

  • Samsung SDS / FindTheGap disclosures
  • HackerOne vulnerability report #3639103
  • Responsible disclosure of web and application security issues

Teaching

  • KISA Practical Cyber Training Center, 2023
  • Threat Hunting
  • MITRE ATT&CK TTP-based threat behavior simulation, event identification, and analysis

Research & Publications

  • UEFI GitBook
  • UEFI Security Trends, CISC-W'22
  • A Study on Node.js Package Vulnerabilities through Prototype Pollution Pattern Analysis, CISC-W'23
  • A Study on Trends in ReDoS Vulnerability Detection Tools and Vulnerability Analysis through Improvement, CISC-W'23

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