Siebel Engineering - Installer & Deployment Security Vulnerabilities

Ansible vulnerabilities

Releases Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.04 ESM Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Packages ansible - Configuration management, deployment, and task execution system Details It was discovered that Ansible incorrectly handled certain inputs when using tower_callback parameter. If a user or an...

Essential Strategies to Secure Your Web Applications and APIs in a Modern Application Development World

In today’s interconnected digital world, the role of web applications and APIs has become central to business operations, acting as gateways to vast amounts of valuable data and services. However, their widespread use and accessibility make them prime targets for cybercriminals, posing substantial....

XZ backdoor: Hook analysis

Part 1: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis Part 2: Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident (social engineering) In our first article on the XZ backdoor, we analyzed its code from initial infection to the function hooking it performs. As we mentioned then, its initial goal was to...

RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations

A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future's Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name...

Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices

Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps. "It provides malicious actors with a....

RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (RHSA-2024:4053)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4053 advisory. Affected components: * python-yaql: a library that contains a large set of commonly used functions * openstack-tripleo-heat-templates: Heat...

CVE-2024-37082 - mTLS bypass | Cloud Foundry

Severity CRITICAL Vendor CloudFoundry Foundation Versions Affected Routing Release < 0.299.0 (in combination with HAProxy Release > 10.6.0) Description When deploying Cloud Foundry together with the haproxy-boshrelease and using a non default configuration, it might be possible to craft HTTP....

Paradox IP150 Internet Module 1.40.00 Cross Site Request Forgery

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RHEL 8 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 (python-gunicorn) (RHSA-2024:4054)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4054 advisory. Gunicorn (Green Unicorn) is a Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX. Security Fix(es): * HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of...

Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers

A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. "The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,"...

Zip slip in opencart

This affects versions of the package opencart/opencart from 4.0.0.0. A Zip Slip issue was identified via the marketplace installer due to improper sanitization of the target path, allowing files within a malicious archive to traverse the filesystem and be extracted to arbitrary locations. An...

Zip slip in opencart

This affects versions of the package opencart/opencart from 4.0.0.0. A Zip Slip issue was identified via the marketplace installer due to improper sanitization of the target path, allowing files within a malicious archive to traverse the filesystem and be extracted to arbitrary locations. An...

CVE-2024-21518

This affects versions of the package opencart/opencart from 4.0.0.0. A Zip Slip issue was identified via the marketplace installer due to improper sanitization of the target path, allowing files within a malicious archive to traverse the filesystem and be extracted to arbitrary locations. An...

CVE-2024-21518

This affects versions of the package opencart/opencart from 4.0.0.0. A Zip Slip issue was identified via the marketplace installer due to improper sanitization of the target path, allowing files within a malicious archive to traverse the filesystem and be extracted to arbitrary locations. An...

CVE-2024-21518

This affects versions of the package opencart/opencart from 4.0.0.0. A Zip Slip issue was identified via the marketplace installer due to improper sanitization of the target path, allowing files within a malicious archive to traverse the filesystem and be extracted to arbitrary locations. An...

AdsExhaust Adware Distributed in Fake Oculus Installer via Google Search

New adware "AdsExhaust" disguises itself as an Oculus installer to steal screenshots, generate fake clicks, and drain resources. Learn how to protect yourself from AdsExhaust and similar...

Oyster Backdoor Spreading via Trojanized Popular Software Downloads

A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That's according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious...

Tabletop exercises are headed to the next frontier: Space

I think we can all agree that tabletop exercises are a good thing. They allow organizations of all sizes to test their incident response plans without the potentially devastating effects of a real-world cyber attack or intrusion. As part of my role at Talos, I've read hundreds of tabletop...

GenAI risks to be aware of — and prepare for — according to Gartner®

The deployment of GenAI, LLMs, and chat interfaces expands potential attack surfaces and poses increased security...

AIX is vulnerable to security restrictions bypass due to cURL libcurl (CVE-2024-0853)

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Thu Jun 20 15:10:42 CDT 2024 The most recent version of this document is available here: https://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/curl_advisory5.asc Security Bulletin: AIX is vulnerable to security restrictions bypass due to cURL libcurl...

PCI DSS v4.0: What You Need to Know and What the End of v3.2.1 Means for the Future of Digital Payments

On March 31st, 2024, The Payments Card Industry Standards Security Council (PCI SSC) officially retired version 3.2.1 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) with the publication of its new sets of protocols and security standards for v4.0. With the continued rise in cyber threats against...

Westermo L210-F2G

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.7 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Westermo Equipment: L210-F2G Lynx Vulnerabilities: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information, Improper Control of Interaction Frequency 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of...

Secure Your Containerized Environments with Qualys Containerized Scanner Appliance (QCSA)

IT has undergone a series of significant shifts over the years, from physical infrastructure to virtual, and how infrastructure was managed and maintained. This shift led IT through the digital transformation era, introducing various types of clouds and “As-a-Service” models. Although...

HUMINT in a cyber world

TL;DR HUMINT / Human Intelligence is gathered from a person in the location in question. It’s the sort of information we think of in the context of spying. A modern intelligence apparatus is multi-discipline with many different collection methods. HUMINT sources include officers, agents,...

Project Naptime: Evaluating Offensive Security Capabilities of Large Language Models

Posted by Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand, Google Project Zero Introduction At Project Zero, we constantly seek to expand the scope and effectiveness of our vulnerability research. Though much of our work still relies on traditional methods like manual source code audits and reverse engineering,...

UNC3886 Uses Fortinet, VMware 0-Days and Stealth Tactics in Long-Term Spying

The China-nexus cyber espionage actor linked to the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Fortinet, Ivanti, and VMware devices has been observed utilizing multiple persistence mechanisms in order to maintain unfettered access to compromised environments. "Persistence mechanisms encompassed...

TotalCloud Insights: Protect Your AWS Environment by Managing Access Keys Securely

Introduction With the average cost of a data breach coming in at $4.45M in 2023, safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining the security of cloud environments is more critical than ever. Instances of compromised access keys, not exclusive to AWS (Amazon Web Services) but prevalent across...

The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt

Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms. These algorithms have splintered the organization of culture, a result of states and tech companies vying for influence over mass audiences. One byproduct of this splintering is a shift from imperfect but broad cultural narratives to a...

New Threat Actor 'Void Arachne' Targets Chinese Users with Malicious VPN Installers

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed Void Arachne that employs malicious Windows Installer (MSI) files for virtual private networks (VPNs) to deliver a command-and-control (C&C) framework called Winos 4.0. "The campaign also promotes...

Warning: Markopolo's Scam Targeting Crypto Users via Fake Meeting Software

A threat actor who goes by alias markopolo has been identified as behind a large-scale cross-platform scam that targets digital currency users on social media with information stealer malware and carries out cryptocurrency theft. The attack chains involve the use of a purported virtual meeting...

Behind the Great Wall: Void Arachne Targets Chinese-Speaking Users With the Winos 4.0 C&C Framework

We recently discovered a new threat actor group that we dubbed Void Arachne. This group targets Chinese-speaking users with malicious Windows Installer (MSI) files in a recent campaign. These MSI files contain legitimate software installer files for AI software and other popular software but are...

Cybercriminals Exploit Free Software Lures to Deploy Hijack Loader and Vidar Stealer

Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users with free or pirated versions of commercial software to deliver a malware loader called Hijack Loader, which then deploys an information stealer known as Vidar Stealer. "Adversaries had managed to trick users into downloading password-protected archive...

How are attackers trying to bypass MFA?

In the latest Cisco Talos Incident Response Quarterly Trends report, instances related to multi-factor authentication (MFA) were involved in nearly half of all security incidents that our team responded to in the first quarter of 2024. In 25% of engagements, the underlying cause was users...

JVN#00442488: Multiple vulnerabilities in Ricoh Streamline NX PC Client

Ricoh Streamline NX PC Client provided by RICOH COMPANY, LTD. contains multiple vulnerabilities listed below. Improper restriction of communication channel to intended endpoints (CWE-923) CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L Base Score 6.3 CVE-2024-36252 ricoh-2024-000004 Use of...

Malvertising Campaign Leads to Execution of Oyster Backdoor

The following analysts contributed to this blog: Thomas Elkins, Daniel Thiede, Josh Lockwood, Tyler McGraw, and Sasha Kovalev. Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed a recent malvertising campaign that lures users into downloading malicious installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and.....

Exploit for Path Traversal in Aiohttp

CVE-2024-23334 Exploit and PoC This repository contains a...

What is DevSecOps and Why is it Essential for Secure Software Delivery?

Traditional application security practices are not effective in the modern DevOps world. When security scans are run only at the end of the software delivery lifecycle (either right before or after a service is deployed), the ensuing process of compiling and fixing vulnerabilities creates massive.....

U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain

Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The individual, a 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was arrested this week in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca as he attempted to board a flight to Italy. The...

Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

A 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom arrested this week in Spain is allegedly the ringleader of Scattered Spider, a cybercrime group suspected of hacking into Twilio, LastPass, DoorDash, Mailchimp, and nearly 130 other organizations over the past two years. The Spanish daily Murcia Today...

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Hits Brazil as Smishing Scams Surge in Pakistan

Pakistan has become the latest target of a threat actor called the Smishing Triad, marking the first expansion of its footprint beyond the E.U., Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and the U.S. "The group's latest tactic involves sending malicious messages on behalf of Pakistan Post to customers of mobile...

ZKTeco Biometric System Found Vulnerable to 24 Critical Security Flaws

An analysis of a hybrid biometric access system from Chinese manufacturer ZKTeco has uncovered two dozen security flaws that could be used by attackers to defeat authentication, steal biometric data, and even deploy malicious backdoors. "By adding random user data to the database or using a fake...

North Korean Hackers Target Brazilian Fintech with Sophisticated Phishing Tactics

Threat actors linked to North Korea have accounted for one-third of all the phishing activity targeting Brazil since 2020, as the country's emergence as an influential power has drawn the attention of cyber espionage groups. "North Korean government-backed actors have targeted the Brazilian...

CVE-2024-35326

A flaw was found in libyaml, where it is vulnerable to a buffer overflow. This issue affects the yaml_emitter_emit function in the /src/libyaml/src/emitter.c. file, leading to a double-free problem. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options...

CVE-2024-35325

A vulnerability was found in libyaml in versions up to 0.2.5. This issue affects the yaml_event_delete function in the /src/libyaml/src/api.c. file, leading to a double-free problem. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red.....

CVE-2024-0444

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in GStreamer. This issue may lead to code execution while parsing tile list data within AV1-encoded video files. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security...

Microsoft Delays AI-Powered Recall Feature for Copilot+ PCs Amid Security Concerns

Microsoft on Thursday revealed that it's delaying the rollout of the controversial artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs. To that end, the company said it intends to shift from general availability to a preview available first in the Windows Insider Program (WIP) in.....

CVE-2024-37407

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in libarchive in the slurp_central_directory function at archive_read_support_format_zip.c. This vulnerability may be triggered if a ZIP archive has an empty name and the mac-ext is enabled. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the.....

CVE-2023-47855

A flaw was found in intel-microcode. Improper input validation in some Intel® TDX module software may allow a privileged user to enable escalation of privileges via local access. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat.....

CVE-2023-46103

A flaw was found in intel-microcode. The sequence of processor instructions leads to unexpected behavior in Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra processors that may allow an authenticated user to enable a denial of service via local access. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the...

CVE-2023-45745

A flaw was found in intel-microcode. Improper input validation in some Intel(R) TDX module software may allow a privileged user to enable escalation of privilege via local access. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat....