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Chaining Three Bugs to Access All Your ServiceNow Data (Live Q&A)

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August 7, 2024

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Overview

On May 14th, 2024, Assetnote disclosed a chain of vulnerabilities to ServiceNow, resulting in three new CVEs. This series of security issues affected all Vancouver and Washington ServiceNow instances (around 42,000 globally), allowing an attacker to execute code on the instance.

In this live Q&A, Assetnote security researcher Adam Kues explains his approach to how he found these vulnerabilities, highlighted in our recent research post. He is joined by hosts, Michael Gianarakis and Shubham Shah. Congratulations to Adam on being credited with CVE-2024-4879, CVE-2024-5178, and CVE-2024-5217!

Adam Kues

Author

Adam Kues

Security Researcher at Searchlight Cyber

Michael Gianarakis

Author

Michael Gianarakis

CEO at Searchlight Cyber

Michael Gianarakis is CEO of Searchlight Cyber, a leader in premptive cybersecurity. With over a decade in the security industry, Michael has built and led offensive security teams across Asia Pacific and Japan. In 2018 he co-founded Assetnote, a pioneering attack surface management platform acquired by Searchlight Cyber in 2025 – bringing best-in-class ASM capability into the PTEM platform. Michael is a respected security researcher and has presented at DEF CON, Black Hat Asia, BSides Las Vegas, Hack in the Box, AusCERT, Thotcon, 44Con, and OWASP.

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