Team Accomplishments

Applied Cyber Competition Team Accomplishments

The Stanford Applied Cyber Competition Team was formed in late 2015 and actively competes in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (CCDC - http://www.nationalccdc.org), National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC - http://nationalcptc.org), as well as various CTFs (Capture the Flag competitions) throughout the year.

Accomplishments in reverse chronological order since first formal competition in January 2016:

• 2nd place in the Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – January 7-9 2022
  
  
  • https://www.rit.edu/news/worlds-best-cybersecurity-students-battle-collegiate-pentesting-competition-rochester
    
    

• 2rd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – November 13-14, 2021
  
  
• 2nd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Regional  – March 26-28, 2021
  
  
• 2nd place in the Global Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – January 7-10, 2021
  
  
  • https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-stanford-cal-poly-pomona-take-top-spots-collegiate-pentesting-competition-finals
  • https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities---threats/virtual-pen-testing-competition-tasks-college-students-with-running-a-red-team-operation/d/d-id/1339890
    
    
• 3rd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – October 24-25, 2020
  
  
• 3rd place in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) – May 22-24, 2020
  
  
• 1st  place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC) Regional Final  – March 20-22, 2020
  
  
• 1st place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Qualifier – January 25th, 2020
  
  
• 1st place in the National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC)  – November 22-24, 2019
  
  
  • Team responsibly disclosed two 0-days during the competition:
    CVE-2019-19249 QueryTree authorization bypass
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19249
    CVE-2019-19250 OpenTrade SQL injection
    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19250
  • https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/students-from-around-the-world-compete-at-rit
  • https://www.rit.edu/news/worlds-best-cybersecurity-colleges-battle-pentesting-competition-finals-rochester
    
    
• 1st place in the Western Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – October 12-13, 2019

• Finalist National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) – April 23-25, 2019
  
  
  • https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/04/26/stanford-team-competes-as-a-finalist-in-national-cybersecurity-simulation

• 1st  place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC) Regional Final – March 1-3, 2019
  
  
• 2nd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Qualifier – February 16th, 2019
  
  
• 2nd  place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Invitational – January 26th, 2019

• 1st place in the National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – November 2-4 , 2018
  
  
  • Team responsibly disclosed a 0-day during the competition., CVE-2019-16293 Open-AudIT authenticated remote code execution https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16293
  • http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=68446

• 1st place in the Western Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – October 6-7, 2018

• 1st place in “Injects”, 5th place overall, Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC) Regional Final – March 23-25, 2018

• 2nd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Qualifier – January 29th, 2018
  
  
  • https://www.facebook.com/wrccdc/posts/1629217527165601

• 1st place in the National Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – November 3-5 , 2017
  
  
  • http://www.rit.edu/news/story.php?id=64778

• 1st place in the Western Regional Collegiate Penetration Testing Competition (CPTC) – October 7-8, 2017
  
  
  • https://applied-cyber.stanford.edu/news/stanford-team-takes-1st-place-in-the-western-regionals-collegiate-penetration-testing-competition-cptc

• 2nd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC) Regional Final – March 24-26, 2017
  
  
  • https://cyber.stanford.edu/stanford-team-wins-second-wrccdc-regionals

• 2nd place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Qualifier – January 28th, 2017
  
  
  • https://www.facebook.com/wrccdc/posts/1248659698554721

• 1st place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Invitational – November 12th, 2016
  
  
  • https://www.facebook.com/wrccdc/posts/1162183203869038

• 4th place in the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC) Regional Final – March 18-20, 2016
  
  
  • https://cyber.stanford.edu/stanford-student-team-places-wrccdc-regionals-pomona  

• 2nd place in “Business Operations” at the Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (WRCCDC)  Invitational – January 9th, 2016
  
  
  • https://cyber.stanford.edu/stanford-student-team-places-2nd-wrccdc-invitational