Critical VMware Carbon Black Bug Allows Auth Bypass

VMware has fixed an uber-severe bug in its Carbon Black App Control AppC management server: A server whose job is to lock down critical systems and servers so they don’t get changed willy-nilly. AppC also ensures that organizations stay in continuous compliance with regulatory mandates. This is a...

VMware patches 2 Critical Vulnerabilities in Carbon Black App Control, VMWare Tools and VMWare Remote Console

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. VMware has patched an authentication bypass vulnerabilityCVE-2021-21998 in the carbon black app control management server. Apart from this vulnerability VMware also patched a privilege escalation vulnerabilityCVE-2021-21999...

Critical Auth Bypass Bug Affects VMware Carbon Black App Control

VMware has rolled out security updates to resolve a critical flaw affecting Carbon Black App Control that could be exploited to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable systems. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2021-21998, is rated 9.4 out of 10 in severity by the industry-standar...

CVE-2021-21998

VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 prior to 8.5.8, and 8.6 prior to 8.6.2 has an authentication bypass. A malicious actor with network access to the VMware Carbon Black App Control management server might be able to obtain administrative access to the product without the need to...

CVE-2021-21998

VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 prior to 8.5.8, and 8.6 prior to 8.6.2 has an authentication bypass. A malicious actor with network access to the VMware Carbon Black App Control management server might be able to obtain administrative access to the product without the need to...

Authentication flaw

VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 prior to 8.5.8, and 8.6 prior to 8.6.2 has an authentication bypass. A malicious actor with network access to the VMware Carbon Black App Control management server might be able to obtain administrative access to the product without the need to...

CVE-2021-21998

CVE-2021-21998 affects VMware Carbon Black App Control on versions 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 before 8.5.8, and 8.6 before 8.6.2. The issue is an authentication bypass that could let a network-accessible attacker obtain administrative access without authentication. Relevant sources note fixes: App Control 8.5...

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in the VMware Carbon Black App Control management server as well as VMware Tools for Windows, VMware Remote Console for Windows, and VMware App Volumes. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected...

VMware Carbon Black App Control 授权问题漏洞

Vmware VMware Carbon Black App Control is an application control product from Vmware USA. It is used to lock down servers and critical systems to prevent unwanted changes. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in VMware Carbon Black App Control 8.0, 8.1, 8.5 before 8.5.8, and 8.6 before...

VMware Carbon Black App Control update addresses authentication bypass (CVE-2021-21998)

3. VMware Carbon Black App Control updates address authentication bypass CVE-2021-21998 The VMware Carbon Black App Control management server has an authentication bypass. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.4...

Deploying EFBs securely

It may come as a surprise to some to discover that electronic flight bag security at airlines is often quite variable. Whilst some use an MDM, a lot don’t. Of those who do, PINs are often weak. Some airlines actively encourage pilots to use their devices for personal use. We’ve heard stories of a...

CVE-2020-15594

An SSRF issue was discovered in Zoho Application Control Plus before version 10.0.511. The mail gateway configuration feature allows an attacker to perform a scan in order to discover open ports on a machine as well as available machines on the network segment on which the instance of the product...

CVE-2020-0951

The CVE-2020-0951 issue is a security feature bypass in Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC). The vulnerability could allow an attacker with local admin access to bypass WDAC enforcement and execute PowerShell commands that WDAC would normally block. Exploitation requires an administrator ...

CVE-2020-11465

An issue was discovered in Deskpro before 2019.8.0. The /api/apps/ endpoints failed to properly validate a user's privilege, allowing an attacker to control/install helpdesk applications and leak current applications' configurations, including applications used as user sources used for...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Industrial Control Systems with Verve Industrial’s Endpoint Management and Carbon Black App Control

Imagine waking up in the morning, flipping on your light switch and nothing happens. The natural human response is to flip the switch a few more times before realizing something is wrong. You jump out of bed and notice the smart coffeemaker has not brewed a fresh cup of coffee that you’ve come to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20681

mate-screensaver before 1.20.2 in MATE Desktop Environment allows physically proximate attackers to view screen content and possibly control applications. By unplugging and re-plugging or power-cycling external output devices such as additionally attached graphical outputs via HDMI, VGA, DVI, etc...

Ghost hardware. Device No.3, the Ghost Rover

The Ghost Rover is a ghost hunting tank. You control it with a mobile app. We’ve looked at a toy spy tank before, it wasn’t great from a security point of view. Let’s hope our ghost-hunting tank – which, at $200, cost almost 4 time as much as the spy tank – has considerable security improvements ...

Trend Micro Endpoint Application Control FileDrop Servlet File Upload

File upload vulnerability in Trend Micro Endpoint Application Control FileDrop Servlet Vulnerability Type: File Upload For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...

Heatmiser WiFi thermostat vulnerabilities

Update – if your heating is misbehaving you need to disable port forwarding to port 80 and port 8068. This should be simply following the reverse of whatever you did to set port forwarding up. Alternatively, you could disable WiFi entirely by putting invalid SSID and password in – I believe the...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Stable channel has been updated to 52.0.2743.116 Platform version: 8350.68.0 for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security updates, and feature enhancements. Systems will be receiving updates over the next several days. Some highlights of these changes are:...