CVE-2017-8448

An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges...

Code injection

An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges...

Elastic X-Pack Alerting Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Elastic X-Pack Alerting is an extension of Elastic Stack a log analyzing system from Dutch company Elasticsearch. A security vulnerability exists in the permission schema used in Elastic X-Pack Alerting versions 5.0.0 through 5.6.0. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to gain elevated...

CVE-2017-8448

An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack Alerting 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges...

CVE-2017-8448

CVE-2017-8448 affects Elastic X-Pack alerting in Elastic Stack versions 5.0.0–5.6.0, where the permission model allowed users mapped to certain built-in roles to create a watch that elevated their privileges. The issue stems from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the X-Pack alerting permiss...

X-Pack Alerting and Kibana 5.6.1 security update

X-Pack alerting privileged user multiple issues An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack alerting whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges. Affected Versions: 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 Solutions and Mitigations...

Partner Perspectives: Operationalizing Data With the Carbon Black and Splunk Integration (Part 1)

Editor's Note: this blog originally appeared on RedCanary.com Over the last 5 years I have grown very close to Splunk. The product has evolved so much over the years, but the core architecture has always been easy to deploy and understand. Splunk is known for the speed at which it can search for...

Dynamic Application Security Test Orchestration: Webbreaker

Build functional security testing, into your software development and release cycles! WebBreaker provides the capabilities to automate and centrally manage Dynamic Application Security Testing DAST as part of your DevOps pipeline. WebBreaker truly enables all members of the Software Security...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

The CIS Critical Security Controls Explained – Control 6: Maintenance, Monitoring and Analysis of Audit Logs

In your organizational environment, Audit Logs are your best friend. Seriously. This is the sixth blog of the series based on the CIS Critical Security Controls. Ill be taking you through Control 6: Maintenance, Monitoring and Analysis of Audit Logs, in helping you to understand the need to nurtu...

Distributed Security Alerting: Securitybot

Distributed Security Alerting Securitybot is an open-source implementation of a distributed alerting chat bot, as described in Ryan Huber’s blog post . Distributed alerting improves the monitoring efficiency of your security team and can help you catch security incidents faster and more...

Port Scan Attack Detector: PSAD

Port Scan Attack Detector The Port Scan Attack Detector psad is a lightweight system daemon written in is designed to work with Linux iptables/ip6tables/firewalld firewalling code to detect suspicious traffic such as port scans and sweeps, backdoors, botnet command and control communications, and...

datasploit - A tool to perform various OSINT techniques

A tool to perform various OSINT techniques, aggregate all the raw data, visualise it on a dashboard, and facilitate alerting and monitoring on the data. Overview of the tool: Performs OSINT on a domain / email / username / phone and find out information from different sources. Correlates and...

Open Source Security Incident and Event Management: SIEMonster

Open Source Security Incident and Event Management SIEMonster is free, documented open source Security Incident and Event Management SIEM designed and engineering with stable, supported open source products developed for security, scalability and functionality. The product was developed by...

The Artillery Project

Artillery is a combination of a honeypot, monitoring tool, and alerting system. Eventually this will evolve into a hardening monitoring platform as well to detect insecure configurations from nix systems. It’s relatively simple, run ./setup.py and hit yes, this will install Artillery in...

Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in EMC M&R (Watch4net) Alerting Frontend

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in EMC M&R Watch4net Alerting Frontend ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Han Sahin, November 2014...

EMC M&R (Watch4net) Alerting Frontend XSS

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in EMC M&R Watch4net Alerting Frontend ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Han Sahin, November 2014...

Project Artillery - Full Suite for Protection against Attack on Linux and Windows

Project Artillery is an open source project aimed at the detection of early warning indicators and attacks. The concept is that Artillery will spawn multiple ports on a system giving the attacker the idea that multiple ports are exposed. Additionally, Artillery actively monitors the filesystem fo...

Nagios Plugins check_dhcp 2.0.2 - Arbitrary Option File Read Race Condition

Nagios Plugins checkdhcp 2.0.2 - Arbitrary Option File Read Race Condition ============================================= - Release date: 28.06.2014 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: Moderate ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- checkdh...

NRPE 2.15 - Remote Command Execution

NRPE 2.15 - Remote Command Execution ============================================= - Release date: 17.04.2014 - Discovered by: Dawid Golunski - Severity: High ============================================= I. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- NRPE - Nagios Remote Plugin Executor = 2.15 Remot...