A week in security (October 10 - 16)

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Zimbra Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Vulnerability in its Collaboration Suite

Zimbra has released patches to contain an actively exploited security flaw in its enterprise collaboration suite that could be leveraged to upload arbitrary files to vulnerable instances. Tracked as CVE-2022-41352 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue affects a component of the Zimbra suite called Amavis, a...

Ongoing exploitation of CVE-2022-41352 (Zimbra 0-day)

Overview On September 10, 2022, a user reported on Zimbras official forums that their team detected a security incident originating from a fully patched instance of Zimbra. The details they provided allowed Zimbra to confirm that an unknown vulnerability allowed attackers to upload arbitrary file...

Puppet puppetlabs-apt module command injection vulnerability

Puppet is a client/server C/S architecture-based configuration management tool from Puppet Labs that can be used to manage configuration files, users, cron tasks, packages, system services, etc. A command injection vulnerability exists in versions of Puppet Puppetlabs-apt module prior to 9.0.0. T...

Researchers Detail Malicious Tools Used by Cyber Espionage Group Earth Aughisky

A new piece of research has detailed the increasingly sophisticated nature of the malware toolset employed by an advanced persistent threat APT group named Earth Aughisky. "Over the last decade, the group has continued to make adjustments in the tools and malware deployments on specific targets...

CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

UBUNTU-CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

TOP 10 unattributed APT mysteries

Targeted attack attribution is always a tricky thing, and in general, we believe that attribution is best left to law enforcement agencies. The reason is that, while in 90% of cases it is possible to understand a few things about the attackers, such as their native language or even location, the...

CVE-2022-3275

CVE-2022-3275 affects the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. Affected component: Puppet/Puppet Enterprise’s puppetlabs-apt module. Root cause: command injection via unsanitized input provided to the module. Impact (as described): potential high-severity impact if an attacker can supply...

CVE-2022-3275 Puppetlabs-apt Command Injection

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

PT-2022-21443 · Puppet +1 · Puppetlabs-Apt +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: puppetlabs-apt versions prior to 9.0.0 Description: Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module. A malicious actor can exploit this issue if they can provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most...

CVE-2022-3275

Command injection is possible in the puppetlabs-apt module prior to version 9.0.0. A malicious actor is able to exploit this vulnerability only if they are able to provide unsanitized input to the module. This condition is rare in most deployments of Puppet and Puppet Enterprise...

Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization

Summary Actions to Help Protect Against APT Cyber Activity: • Enforce multifactor authentication MFA on all user accounts. • Implement network segmentation to separate network segments based on role and functionality. • Update software, including operating systems, applications, and firmware, on...

FBI, CISA, and NSA Reveal How Hackers Targeted a Defense Industrial Base Organization

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday disclosed that multiple nation-state hacking groups potentially targeted a "Defense Industrial Base DIB Sector organization's enterprise network" as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "Advanced persistent threat actors used an open-source...

Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the National Security Agency NSA have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Impacket and Exfiltration Tool Used to Steal Sensitive Information from Defense Industrial Base Organization, highlighting advanced persistent threat APT activity...

Tracking Earth Aughisky’s Malware and Changes

For over 10 years, security researchers have been observing and keeping tabs of APT group Earth Aughisky’s malware families and the connections, including previously documented malware that have yet to be attributed...