XSS in JSON: Old-School Attacks for Modern Applications

I recently wrote a blog post on injection-type vulnerabilities and how they were knocked down a few spots from 1 to 3 on the new OWASP Top 10 for 2022. The main focus of that article was to demonstrate how stack traces could be — and still are — used via injection attacks to gather information...

angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)

AngularJS lets users write client-side web applications. The package angular after 1.7.0 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service ReDoS by providing a custom locale rule that makes it possible to assign the parameter in posPre: ' '.repeat of NUMBERFORMATS.PATTERNS1.posPre with a very...

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Apache Tomcat

Apache Tomcat 4.1.0 through 4.1.39, 5.5.0 through 5.5.27, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.18 permits web applications to replace an XML parser used for other web applications, which allows local users to read or modify the 1 web.xml, 2 context.xml, or 3 tld files of arbitrary web applications via a crafted...

GHSA-678X-XFP4-R92R Apache Geronimo Application Server CSRF vulnerabilities

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in the web administration console in Apache Geronimo Application Server 2.1 through 2.1.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that 1 change the web administration password, 2 upload application...

RHEL 7 / 8 : Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.6.2 Security Update (Important) (RHSA-2022:1519)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1519 advisory. Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: usd-21.11-11.fc35

Universal Scene Description USD is a time-sampled scene description for interchange between graphics applications...

GHSA-W65J-CMQC-37P2 JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat does not restrict certain permissions for web applications

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by...

JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat does not restrict certain permissions for web applications

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by...

Apache Tomcat vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the 1 Manager and 2 Host Manager web applications in Apache Tomcat 4.0.0 through 4.0.6, 4.1.0 through 4.1.36, 5.0.0 through 5.0.30, 5.5.0 through 5.5.24, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.13 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script o...

Jakarta Tomcat cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the 1 examples and 2 ROOT web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 3.x through 3.3.1a allow remote attackers to insert arbitrary web script or HTML...

GHSA-5HGM-QM5M-5VMW Jakarta Tomcat cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the 1 examples and 2 ROOT web applications for Jakarta Tomcat 3.x through 3.3.1a allow remote attackers to insert arbitrary web script or HTML...

Xiaomi MIUI has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2022-81249)

Xiaomi MIUI is an Android-based smartphone operating system developed by Xiaomi Technology China, Inc. A security vulnerability exists in Xiaomi MIUI due to a lack of checksum when using incoming parameters from a three-party application, which could be exploited by attackers to induce users to...

IBM Java 6.0 < 6.0.16.65 / 6.1 < 6.1.8.65 / 7.0 < 7.0.10.25 / 7.1 < 7.1.4.25 / 8.0 < 8.0.5.15 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of IBM Java installed on the remote host is prior to 6.0 6.0.16.65 / 6.1 6.1.8.65 / 7.0 7.0.10.25 / 7.1 7.1.4.25 / 8.0 8.0.5.15. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the Oracle April 17 2018 CPU advisory. - Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:1465-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

OpenJDK: URI parsing inconsistencies (JNDI, 8278972)

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: JNDI. Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 7u331, 8u321, 11.0.14, 17.0.2, 18; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.5, 21.3.1 and 22.0.0.2. Easily exploitable...

OpenJDK: Improper object-to-string conversion in AnnotationInvocationHandler (Libraries, 8277672)

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Libraries. Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 7u331, 8u321, 11.0.14, 17.0.2, 18; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.5, 21.3.1 and 22.0.0.2. Easily exploitable...

[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: golang-github-prometheus-alertmanager-0.23.0-8.fc35

The Alertmanager handles alerts sent by client applications such as the Prometheus server. It takes care of deduplicating, grouping, and routing them to the correct receiver integrations such as email, PagerDuty, or OpsGenie. It a lso takes care of silencing and inhibition of alerts...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2022:1431-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2021-34591

In Bender/ebee Charge Controllers in multiple versions are prone to Local privilege Escalation. An authenticated attacker could get root access via the suid applications socat, ip udhcpc and ifplugd...

Millions of Java Apps Remain Vulnerable to Log4Shell

Four months after the discovery of the zero-day Log4Shell critical flaw, millions of Java applications still remain vulnerable to compromise, researchers have found. Rezilion expected that due to the “massive amount of media coverage” the bug unsurprisingly received, the majority of applications...