New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!

Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. The company released 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a fix for a heap buffer overflow flaw CVE-2021-21148 in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine...

Déjà vu-lnerability

A Year in Review of 0-days Exploited In-The-Wild in 2020 Posted by Maddie Stone, Project Zero 2020 was a year full of 0-day exploits. Many of the Internet’s most popular browsers had their moment in the spotlight. Memory corruption is still the name of the game and how the vast majority of detect...

SonicWall hacked after 0-day flaws exploited by hackers

By Deeba Ahmed The cybersecurity firm SonicWall has confirmed that it was hacked after hackers exploited 0-day flaws in its VPN product. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SonicWall hacked after 0-day flaws exploited by hackers...

Google reveals high-profile attack targeting Android, Windows users

By Deeba Ahmed According to Google's Project Zero team, threat actors exploited 0-day vulnerabilities to successfully carry on their attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google reveals high-profile attack targeting Android, Windows users...

Introducing the In-the-Wild Series

This is part 1 of a 6-part series detailing a set of vulnerabilities found by Project Zero being exploited in the wild. To read the other parts of the series, head to the bottom of this post. At Project Zero we often refer to our goal simply as “make 0-day hard”. Members of the team approach this...

WordPress Plugin Wp-FileManager 6.8 - RCE

Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Wp-FileManager 6.8 - RCE Date: September 4,2020 Exploit Author: Mansoor R @time4ster CVE: CVE-2020-25213 Version Affected: 6.0 to 6.8 Vendor URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-manager/ Patch: Upgrade to wp-file-manager 6.9 or above Tested on: wp-file-manage...

Update Your iOS Devices Now — 3 Actively Exploited 0-Days Discovered

Apple on Thursday released multiple security updates to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities that were revealed as being actively exploited in the wild. Rolled out as part of its iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS updates, the flaws reside in the FontParser component and the kernel, allowing...

WordPress File Manager Plugin < 6.9 Arbitrary File Upload

We noticed multiple cases where WordPress sites were breached using 0-day in wp-file-manager confirmed with v6.8, which was the latest version available in wordpress.org. File lib/php/connector.minimal.php can be by default opened directly, and this file loads lib/php/elFinderConnector.class.php...

File Manager 6.0-6.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload leading to RCE

Seravo noticed multiple cases where WordPress sites were breached using 0-day in wp-file-manager confirmed with v6.8, which was the latest version available in wordpress.org. File lib/php/connector.minimal.php can be by default opened directly, and this file loads...

File Manager 6.0-6.9 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload leading to RCE

Seravo noticed multiple cases where WordPress sites were breached using 0-day in wp-file-manager confirmed with v6.8, which was the latest version available in wordpress.org. File lib/php/connector.minimal.php can be by default opened directly, and this file loads...

Researcher Publishes Patch Bypass for vBulletin 0-Day

A security researcher has published proof-of-concept code to outsmart a patch issued last year for a zero-day vulnerability discovered in vBulletin, a popular software for building online community forums. Calling a patch for the flaw a “fail” and “inadequate in blocking exploitation,” Austin-bas...

Root Cause Analyses for 0-day In-the-Wild Exploits

Posted by Maddie Stone, Project Zero When a 0-day is exploited in the wild AND it is detected, we need to use that as an opportunity to learn as much as possible about the vulnerability and the exploit if we hope to make 0-day hard. One of the main methods to do that is to perform a root cause...

Detection Deficit: A Year in Review of 0-days Used In-The-Wild in 2019

Posted by Maddie Stone, Project Zero In May 2019, Project Zero released our tracking spreadsheet for 0-days used “in the wild” and we started a more focused effort on analyzing and learning from these exploits. This is another way Project Zero is trying to make zero-day hard. This blog post...

How to unc0ver a 0-day in 4 hours or less

By Brandon Azad, Project Zero At 3 PM PDT on May 23, 2020, the unc0ver jailbreak was released for iOS 13.5 the latest signed version at the time of release using a zero-day vulnerability and heavy obfuscation. By 7 PM, I had identified the vulnerability and informed Apple. By 1 AM, I had sent App...

Windowsrcer IE/Edge Cross-URL vulnerabilities

Cross-Origin bugs in IE and Edge allow bypassing SOP in both browsers. 0-days released by James Lee @Windowsrcer Recent assessments: busterb at August 21, 2019 4:31pm UTC reported: A SOP bug requires the attacker to inject a resource into one domain, and be listening on another. Such a...

New Tool Can Jailbreak Any iPhone and iPad Using An Unpatched 0-Day Bug

The hacking team behind the "unc0ver" jailbreaking tool has released a new version of the software that can unlock every single iPhone, including those running the latest iOS 13.5 version. Calling it the first zero-day jailbreak to be released since iOS 8, unc0ver's lead developer Pwn20wnd said...

IBM Data Risk Manager Arbitrary File Download

IBM Data Risk Manager IDRM contains two vulnerabilities that can be chained by an unauthenticated attacker to download arbitrary files off the system. The first is an unauthenticated bypass, followed by a path traversal. This module exploits both vulnerabilities, giving an attacker the ability to...

The Dukes of Moscow

Overview APT29, also known as The Dukes or Cozy Bear, is a cyberespionage group active since at least 2008. It’s believed that the group operates either under the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service SVR or the Russian Federal Security Service FSB. They primarily target western governments and...

Hackers Actively Exploit 0-Day in CCTV Camera Hardware

Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities were actively being exploited in CCTV security cameras manufactured by Taiwan-based LILIN, researchers found. The company, an IP video solution provider, was being targeted by hackers hijacking the company’s DVR hardware. Once commandeered, hackers then planted...

CVE-2020-10592

Tor is affected by CVE-2020-10592 (CPU consumption DoS) and CVE-2020-10593 (circuit padding memory leak) in versions before 0.3.5.10/0.4.x before 0.4.1.9/0.4.2.x before 0.4.2.7. Public advisories indicate upgrades to Tor 0.3.5.12 or later (e.g., 0.3.5.12, and later 0.3.5.x lines) address these is...