Shivam Solanki

I code and I game

[Shivam Solanki @shimthemage]

Panic is real.

[F1 TROLL @f1trollofficial]

Ferrari drivers last 3 races

[Angelo @angelodotsui]

looking for pearls and i found a diamond

[Shivam Solanki @shimthemage]

@spark9_ herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Gerburtstag!

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.

This is the post: https://t.co/ZtIKlYF6sK

[Tirth Parmar @thetirthparmar]

After #CBSE, we found RCE + full server control including the database on another subdomain of Onmark

We didn’t perform any harmful actions no data was touched or leaked.

This is just another proof that serious vulnerabilities still exist.

Reported responsibly.

#cybersecurity

[SamSays @samjawed65]

Students are uncovering marksheet errors.

Students are exposing alleged vulnerabilities in the OSM system.

Students are scrutinising the tender process.

When students are forced to become investigators and auditors of their own exam process, something is seriously wrong.

Are no heads going to roll for the CBSE mess?

[Manish Sharma @Cheekytogeeky]

be @ni5arga

→ 19 years old, from West Bengal, studied in Delhi for a few years
→ just finished his own Class 12 exams in 2026
→ calls himself a hobbyist cybersecurity researcher
→ says he is an engineer, not a hacker
→ built an OSINT engine, a stock-tracking TUI, a pastebin in Rust
→ once found bugs in FOSS United and disclosed them quietly
→ just another CBSE student watching his own board roll out a new digital marking system

then he opened the portal

→ CBSE moves Class 12 evaluation to On-Screen Marking, 1.8 million students affected
→ Nisarga sees the portal link is fully public, gets curious
→ opens DevTools, downloads the Angular JavaScript bundle
→ first vulnerability found in 30 minutes
→ a literal master password sitting in plain text inside the frontend code
→ enter it, the OTP field auto-fills, the entire login flow gets bypassed
→ OTP validation happens in the user's browser, not on the server
→ no route guards, every internal page reachable by editing browser storage
→ password reset API never checks the old password
→ systemic IDOR across the entire API, change one value in sessionStorage, become any examiner
→ outcome: take over any teacher account, view answer sheets, edit marks

25 February 2026. He reports everything to CERT-In the same day.

→ CERT-In asks for a screen recording, he sends a full walkthrough
→ acknowledgement comes back as a boilerplate reply
→ reference number assigned: CERTIn-16590126
→ he follows up multiple times. no response.
→ three months pass. portal still live. Class 12 results released. vulnerabilities still there.
→ 22 May: publishes the blog post and a thread on X
→ Deedy Das, Satish Acharya, Internet Freedom Foundation amplify it
→ the post goes viral
→ CBSE issues a clarification: that was just a test portal, no breach
→ the URL CBSE cited in their own tweet was not even a registered domain
→ a friend buys the domain and points it at Nisarga's blog
→ CBSE quietly deletes the tweet

then it gets worse

→ 25 May: finds an SQL injection vulnerability on the live production portal
→ reports to CERT-In, gets a one-line thank you
→ gains admin access to the live https://t.co/1WpmNGsczK server
→ portal stays up for four more hours
→ he uploads anime videos and memes, links them publicly from CBSE servers
→ plays a viral Japanese song on a CBSE page, makes the news for it
→ CBSE finally takes the whole portal down

then he reads the database

→ master table accessed: 10 GB, 9.3 million records
→ examiner names, addresses, school names, bank account details
→ passwords stored in plain text
→ login tokens anyone can paste into a browser to log in as that user
→ 31 May: finds a second live CBSE production portal, 45,074 records of failed payments
→ emails, phone numbers, payment IDs, order IDs, all readable
→ 31 May, the bigger one: an AWS S3 bucket is misconfigured
→ ListObjectsV2 works without authentication, the bucket root is listable
→ samples pulled from 18 lakh scanned 2026 answer sheets, every subject
→ multiple institutions sharing the same bucket
→ also notices something strange in the scans: bedsheets visible in the background of answer sheets CBSE paid for proper scanners to handle

CBSE responds

→ posts an AI-generated image saying the system is robust and secure
→ three days later admits some vulnerabilities existed and have been contained
→ refuses to name the cybersecurity firm doing the audit
→ claims they tried contacting him. he says they have not.

→ Internet Freedom Foundation writes to the Ministry of Education and CERT-In
→ asks for an investigation into CBSE, a review of the contract with vendor Coempt EduTeck, a full audit

→ he points out he could have sold this data and made a lot of money
→ he did not. he is a CBSE student too.
→ his own analogy: the door wasn't just unlocked. the key was lying on the ground in front of everyone.

a 19-year-old with a anima pff broke a national exam evaluation system in 30 minutes with browser developer tools and the government is still pretending it was a test environment

[Shivam Solanki @shimthemage]

Rikka Takanashi doing an expose on CBSE was not on my bucket list

[Sakshi Narula @mssakshinarula]

My god ...please watch this. I swear this country is being held together by a chewing gum.@ni5arga well done on exposing these vulnerabilities and even answering the media so confidently. I know this is not easy for you and took a lot of courage 🙌

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

Toolkit.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

CBSE people didn't configure their AWS bucket properly and now we can paginate & enumerate all their media which has 2026 answersheets & question papers. ListObjectsV2 works without any auth and the bucket root is listable too — anyone on the internet can download any scanned booklet — across institutions. Multiple institutions are using the same bucket, insanely insecure.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

We were able to get full create, read, update and delete (CRUD) access & shell access to CBSE's prod servers (as mentioned in their circular https://t.co/MFiu5xU1DF). This is disastrous. Proof archive is at https://t.co/LWWqKBOGjv.

Prod URL (might be taken down): https://t.co/gbZKz3d65V

[🍉Archesuchus🪶 @_Archesuchus_]

LOVE the way they did Anorith's eyes, they actually follow you around!

[F1 TROLL @f1trollofficial]

Piastri should stick to his normal helmet

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing.

honestly? it’s this.