A week in security (June 17 – 23)

Last week on the Malwarebytes Labs blog, we took a look at the growing pains of smart cities, took a deep dive into AI, jammed along to Radiohead, and looked at the lessons learned from Chernobyl in relation to critical infrastructure. We also explored a new Steam phish attack, and pulled apart a...

New Android malware bypass 2FA & steal one-time passwords

By Uzair Amir These apps were designed to pass as BtcTurk, a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange. Researcher Lukas Stefanko at the Slovakian security firm ESET has discovered Android malware in new apps that can bypass the SMS-based two-factor authentication 2FA without using SMS permissions. The...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of test-module-a contain malicious code as a preinstall script. The package fetches all names of npm packages owned by the user and attempts to add another maintainer to every package as a means of package hijacking, Recommendation Remove the package from your system. If you...

Malicious Package

Overview All versions of shrugging-logging contain malicious code as a postinstall script. The package fetches all names of npm packages owned by the user and attempts to add another maintainer to every package as a means of package hijacking, Recommendation Remove the package from your system. I...

CVE-2018-13379 Path Traversal in Fortinet FortiOS

An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory “Path Traversal” in Fortinet FortiOS 6.0.0 to 6.0.4, 5.6.3 to 5.6.7 and 5.4.6 to 5.4.12 and FortiProxy 2.0.0, 1.2.0 to 1.2.8, 1.1.0 to 1.1.6, 1.0.0 to 1.0.7 under SSL VPN web portal allows an unauthenticated attacker to download syste...

X (Formerly Twitter): Potential pre-auth RCE on Twitter VPN

Hi, weOrange Tsai and Meh Chang are the security research team from DEVCORE. Recently, we are doing a research about SSL VPN security, and found several critical vulnerabilities on Pulse Secure SSL VPN! We have reported to vendor and patches have been released on 2019/4/25. Since that, we keep...

CVE-2019-7218

Citrix ShareFile vulnerable to a downgrade of authentication from two-factor to one-factor for versions before 19.23. An attacker who has access to the victim’s OTP token or authenticator app could bypass the username/password step and log in with username/OTP only. The issue affects the 2FA logi...

The 2019 DBIR is out

Once again, we are happy to support a large, voluntary, collaborative effort like the 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report. While our data contribution is completely anonymous, it is based in some of the 2018 data set that our private report customers receive from our efforts to protect all of...

On Security Tokens

Mark Risher of Google extols the virtues of security keys: I'll say it again for the people in the back: with Security Keys, instead of the user needing to verify the site, the site has to prove itself to the key. Good security these days is about human factors; we have to take the onus off of th...

2FA Authentication Bypass

github.com/go-gitea/gitea is vulnerable to 2FA authentication bypass. 1FA authentication is performed for 2FA-enrolled users, allowing attackers who have obtained user credentials to gain access to the API without requiring the one-time password for the second factor authentication...

Design/Logic Flaw

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password...

CVE-2019-11576

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password...

CVE-2019-11576

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password...

CVE-2019-11576

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password...

CVE-2019-11576

Gitea before 1.8.0 is affected by CVE-2019-11576, where accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment can be subjected to a 1FA bypass if the attacker has the user’s credentials, allowing API access without the one-time password. The vulnerability is rooted in 2FA bypass for accounts with active 2F...

Android 7.0+ Phones Can Now Double as Google Security Keys

Google this week made it easier for Android users to enable strong 2-factor authentication 2FA when logging into Google's various services. The company announced that all phones running Android 7.0 and higher can now be used as Security Keys, an additional authentication layer that helps thwart...

2FA sessions not properly expired on password change (NC-SA-2020-001)

A bug in Nextcloud Server 15.0.2 causes pending 2FA logins to not be correctly expired when the password of the user is reset...

Threatpost Data: Password Managers Are Worth the Risk, Readers Say

Despite a high-profile memory-related vulnerability in password managers capturing headlines last week, a recent Threatpost poll found that 84 percent of respondents use password managers – while only 10 percent said they don’t due to security risks. There have been vulnerabilities found before i...

Kanboard 1.2.7 Code Execution / Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerabilities

Kanboard version 1.2.7 contains multiple vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities include CSV account import cross site request forgery which allows an unauthenticated attacker to create a new administrative user. Cross site request forgery 2FA deactivation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to...

Kanboard 1.2.7 Code Execution / Cross Site Request Forgery

Feb 11 2019 Kanboard 1.2.7 contains multiple vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities include CSV account import cross site request forgery which allows an unauthenticated attacker to create a new administrative user. Cross site request forgery 2FA deactivation, allowing an unauthenticated attacker t...