This Week in Security News: February 2020 Patch Tuesday Update and Misconfigured AWS S3 Bucket Leaks 36,000 Inmate Records

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the more than 140 February Patch Tuesday updates from Microsoft and Adobe. Also, read about how an unsecured and unencrypted...

CVE-2019-14652

explorer.js in Amazon AWS JavaScript S3 Explorer aka aws-js-s3-explorer v2 alpha before 2019-08-02 allows XSS in certain circumstances...

CVE-2019-14652

explorer.js in Amazon AWS JavaScript S3 Explorer aka aws-js-s3-explorer v2 alpha before 2019-08-02 allows XSS in certain circumstances...

Cross site scripting

explorer.js in Amazon AWS JavaScript S3 Explorer aka aws-js-s3-explorer v2 alpha before 2019-08-02 allows XSS in certain circumstances...

CVE-2019-14652

CVE-2019-14652 affects the Amazon AWS JavaScript S3 Explorer (aws-js-s3-explorer) in the v2 alpha line prior to 2019-08-02. The connected documents specify a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in explorer.js, enabling injection of malicious script or HTML under certain circumstances when pr...

CVE-2019-14652

explorer.js in Amazon AWS JavaScript S3 Explorer aka aws-js-s3-explorer v2 alpha before 2019-08-02 allows XSS in certain circumstances...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2020-0212

Updates of 'linux', 'linux-esx', 'linux-aws', 'linux-secure' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Unable to Add Workers to Bahrain or Hong Kong Regions

Challenge When adding a worker instance to the Bahrain or Hong Kong regions, the following error occurs: AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials. Cause Veeam Backup for AWS uses the Global STS endpoint. Solution To add a worker to the Bahrain or Hong Kong regions, do the...

Important Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2020-0214

Updates of 'linux-aws', 'linux-secure', 'cloud-init', 'linux-esx', 'libvirt', 'linux' packages of Photon OS have been released...

Takeover v0.2 - Sub-Domain TakeOver Vulnerability Scanner

Sub-domain takeover vulnerability occur when a sub-domain subdomain.example.com is pointing to a service e.g: GitHub , AWS/S3 ,.. that has been removed or deleted. This allows an attacker to set up a page on the service that was being used and point their page to that sub-domain. For example, if...

CVE-2020-5856

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1.1 and 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, while processing specifically crafted traffic using the default 'xnet' driver, Virtual Edition instances hosted in Amazon Web Services AWS may experience a TMM restart...

CVE-2020-5856

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1.1 and 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, while processing specifically crafted traffic using the default 'xnet' driver, Virtual Edition instances hosted in Amazon Web Services AWS may experience a TMM restart...

Default configuration

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1.1 and 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, while processing specifically crafted traffic using the default 'xnet' driver, Virtual Edition instances hosted in Amazon Web Services AWS may experience a TMM restart...

CVE-2020-5856

CVE-2020-5856 affects BIG-IP Virtual Edition running 15.0.0–15.0.1.1 and 14.1.0–14.1.2.2. Processing crafted traffic with the default xnet driver may cause a TMM restart, leading to DoS on AWS-hosted VE deployments. The vulnerability is mitigated by upgrading to vulnerable-affected versions’ fixe...

CVE-2020-5856

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1.1 and 14.1.0-14.1.2.2, while processing specifically crafted traffic using the default 'xnet' driver, Virtual Edition instances hosted in Amazon Web Services AWS may experience a TMM restart...

Uber: Disclosure of Co-Rider user (Uber-pooling) profile picture at Amazon AWS Cloudfront within HTTP RESPONSE

After booking a shared ride, an attacker is able to access the profile picture of a co-rider. It is possible during the trip to view the co-rider's picture...

Critical Photon OS Security Update - PHSA-2020-0272

Updates of 'unbound', 'libxml2', 'libarchive', 'salt' packages of Photon OS have been released...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : BIG-IP TMM AWS vulnerability (K00025388)

While processing specifically crafted traffic using the default 'xnet' driver, BIG-IP Virtual Edition VE instances hosted in Amazon Web Services AWS may experience a Traffic Management Microkernel TMM restart. CVE-2020-5856 Impact A remote attacker may be able to perform a denial-of-service DoS...

Ruby on Rails: ActiveStorage direct upload fails to sign content-length header for S3 service

When a user makes a direct upload using ActiveStorage, the browser makes a request to the DirectUploadsController containing the directupload parameters filename, contenttype, bytesize, and checksum. These are used to generate a presigned url that is then passed back to the browser, allowing the...

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