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Seokchan Yoon

Offensive Web Security Researcher

Security Contributor of GitHub, Python, Django, Airflow, Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, Java Spring

Education

March 2020 - Present

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering (In Progress)

KyungHee University

July 2017 - May 2018

Completed Vulnerability Analysis Track

Best of the Best, Korean Next-Generation Security Leader Training Program

March 2017 - February 2020

Graduated from Dept. of Hacking Defense

Korea Digital Media Highschool

Work Experience

July 2025 - Present 3 months

Security Team Member (Volunteer)

Airflow Security Team, Apache Software Foundation USA

  • • Reviewing and addressing security vulnerabilities in Apache Airflow
  • • Collaborating with the open-source community
  • • Maintaining the security posture of the project in accordance with ASF guidelines
April 2025 - Present 6 months

Security Researcher

Zellic.io USA

  • • Security audit of Web2 components within the Web3 ecosystem
September 2023 - March 2025 1 year 6 months

Unit [REDACTED], Private [REDACTED]

Research Institute under the Ministry of National Defense, Korea

  • • Research and development of [REDACTED]
July 2020 - June 2023 3 years

R&D / Proactive Response Team, Security Engineer

STEALIEN

  • • Web penetration testing
  • • Development and operation of educational systems (Cyber Drill System, Django + React) and CTF
  • • Development and maintenance of internal tools, technical blogs, deployment systems, and other infrastructure

CTF Awards

2025 CCE (Cyber Conflict Exercise)

Finalist
General Division

- hosted by National Intelligence Service, Korea

- Team: 경희대미남해커들 (KHU's hansome hackers)

2025 DEF CON CTF 33

Finalist

- hosted by Nautilus Institute

- Team: Cold Fusion

🏆 2024 White Hat Contest

Soldier Division

- hosted by Ministry of National Defense, Korea

- Team: 키보드워리어플랫폼 (Keyboard Warrior Platform)

1st, Korea Defense Minister Award

2023 CODEGATE

Finalist
University Division

- hosted by Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea

- Team: 경희대미남해커들 (KHU's hansome hackers)

2022 CODEGATE

Finalist
University Division

- hosted by Ministry of Science and ICT, Korea

- Team: 경희대미남해커들 (KHU's hansome hackers)

🏆 2022 CCE (Cyber Conflict Exercise)

Public Institution Sector Division

- hosted by National Intelligence Service, Korea

- Team: resilience

2nd, Korea Security Research Institute Director Award

🏆 2022 HACKTHEON SEJONG National University Cybersecurity Competition

- hosted by Sejong Special Self-Governing City, Korea

- Team: 라임도둑 (Lime Thief)

6st, Korea Security Research Institute Director Award

🏆 2021 CCE (Cyber Conflict Exercise)

Public Institution Sector Division

- hosted by National Intelligence Service, Korea

- Team: resilience

2nd, Korea Security Research Institute Director Award

🏆 2019 Cyber Operations Challenge

Student Division

- hosted by Ministry of National Defense, Korea

- Team: 윤석찬TV구독과좋아요알림설정까지

2nd, Korea Cyber Command Award

🏆 2018 Cybersecurity Competition

Individual Preliminary Round

- hosted by Ministry of Education, Korea

1st, SWU President Award

🏆 2018 Cybersecurity Competition

Team Finals

- hosted by Ministry of Education, Korea

- Team: 문시우1인팀 (munsiwoo 1-person team)

1st, Education Minister Award

🏆 2017 Cybersecurity Competition

Team Finals

- hosted by Korea Education and Research Information Service

- Team: 4-day exploit

1st, KERIS Director Award

Disclosed Vulnerabilities

Python Python

CVE-2024-7592

Denial of Service
Internals

A vulnerability in Python allows quadratic complexity parsing when handling cookies containing backslashes, potentially leading to performance degradation.

Django Django

CVE-2023-36053

Regular Expression Denial of Service
Internals

In Django 3.2 before 3.2.20, 4 before 4.1.10, and 4.2 before 4.2.3, `EmailValidator` and `URLValidator` are subject to a potential ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) attack via a very large number of domain name labels of emails and URLs.

Django Django

CVE-2024-24680

Denial of Service
Templates

A vulnerability in the Django `intcomma` template filter could lead to a potential denial of service if certain crafted inputs are processed.

Django Django

CVE-2024-27351

Regular Expression Denial of Service
Utilities

A vulnerability in Django's `Truncator.words()` function may allow a ReDoS attack under certain circumstances.

Django Django

CVE-2024-21520

Cross-Site Scripting
Rest Framework

The browserable API of the Django Rest Framework is vulnerable to cross-site scripting due to improper sanitization of user-supplied inputs.

Django Django

CVE-2024-41991

Denial of Service
Utilities

A vulnerability in Django's `urlize` function and `AdminURLFieldWidget` could allow for a denial of service under specific crafted input conditions.

Django Django

CVE-2024-53908

SQL Injection
Database

A vulnerability in the `HasKey` function in Django when using Oracle databases may allow a potential SQL injection.

Django Django

CVE-2025-48432

Log Injection
Internal Logging

Internal HTTP response logging used request.path directly, allowing control characters (e.g. newlines or ANSI escape sequences) to be written unescaped into logs.

Apache Apache Airflow

CVE-2024-39877

Code Execution
Scheduler

A vulnerability in Apache Airflow's scheduler allows DAG authors to execute arbitrary code, potentially compromising the scheduler node.

Apache Apache Airflow

CVE-2024-39863

Cross-Site Scripting
Web Interface

Improper sanitization in Apache Airflow's web interface could lead to a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Apache Apache Airflow

CVE-2024-45034

Code Execution
Scheduler

Authenticated DAG authors in Apache Airflow can execute arbitrary code on scheduler nodes, leading to potential system compromise.

Ruby Ruby

CVE-2024-41123

Denial of Service
REXML

Vulnerabilities in Ruby's REXML library allow attackers to cause a denial of service by crafting malicious XML inputs.

Ruby Ruby on Rails

CVE-2024-47887

Regular Expression Denial of Service
Action Controller

Ruby on Rails' Action Controller is vulnerable to a potential regular expression denial of service when handling HTTP token authentication.

Ruby Ruby on Rails

CVE-2024-41128

Regular Expression Denial of Service
Action Dispatch

A vulnerability in Rails' Action Dispatch may allow a regular expression denial of service when filtering query parameters.

Java Java Spring

CVE-2024-38809

Denial of Service
Framework

Spring Framework is vulnerable to a potential denial of service caused by a crafted conditional HTTP request.

GitHub GitHub

HackerOne #2646500

Denial of Service
GitHub & GitHub Enterprise

GitHub is vulnerable to a potential denial of service caused by a malicously crafted HTTP request.

NAVER NAVER

NBB-1126

Stored XSS
NAVER service

NAVER is vulnerable to a stored-xss caused by a crafted payload.

NAVER NAVER

NBB-1143

SQL Injection
NAVER service

NAVER is vulnerable to a SQL injection caused by a crafted payload.

NAVER NAVER

NBB-1260

Stored XSS
NAVER service

NAVER is vulnerable to a stored XSS caused by a crafted payload.

Talks

2024

" Django Framework from a Hacker's Perspective " (in Korean)

PyCon KR 2024

2023

" Analysis of Django Framework N-day Vulnerabilities and Secure Coding Guide " (in Korean)

CODEGATE 2023

2023

" Django Framework 1-day Analysis " (in Korean)

26th Hacking Camp

2022

" Bug Cases and Secure Coding in Modern Web Services " (in Korean)

STEALIEN Security Seminar

Blogs