Ben Bader

Ben Bader is a Senior Software Engineer at Seal Security, where he researches vulnerabilities in widely used open source packages. His findings include CVE-2024-12905 in tar-fs, denial-of-service flaws in brace-expansion (CVE-2026-13149) and fflate (CVE-2026-45820), and a zip-slip vulnerability in extract-zip (CVE-2026-19693), as well as research into how agent skills are installed through the vercel-labs skills CLI. Earlier, he found memory-safety vulnerabilities in the YARA malware-scanning engine (CVE-2018-12034, CVE-2018-12035 and CVE-2018-19974 through CVE-2018-19976). Before joining Seal, he worked as a software developer at Check Point and as a senior engineer and technical lead at BitDam and Datto.