Code IB 2019: Vulnerability Management Masterclass

On March 29, I held one hour master class "HOW to avoid excessive formalism in Vulnerability Management process" at Code IB Profi 2019. Everything went quite well and I've got 88% positive ratings. Not bad result ^^. The main feature of the conference was a very special audience. The only way to...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect Rational Business Developer.

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 & 8 and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 7 & 8 used by Rational Business Developer. Rational Business Developer has addressed the applicable CVEs. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java S...

WAGO Series 750-88x and 750-87x

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: WAGO Equipment: Series 750-88x and 750-87x Vulnerability: Use of Hard-coded Credentials 2. RISK EVALUATION This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to change the settings or alter the...

Discover and manage shadow IT with Microsoft 365

While IT teams methodically plan corporate adoption of cloud services, the rest of us have dived in headfirst. Ten years ago, a vendor shared a video file with me via Dropbox because it was too big to email. It was my first experience with a cloud file sharing service, and when I realized I could...

Why Asset Management is so important for Vulnerability Management and Infrastructure Security?

When people ask me how should they start building Vulnerability Management process in their organization well, sometimes it happens, I advice them to create an effective Asset Management process first. Because it's the foundation of the whole Infrastructure Security. The term "Asset Management" h...

GitLab: Importing GitLab project archives can replace uploads of other users

Summary Importing a modified exported GitLab project archive can overwrite uploads for other users. If the secret and file name of an upload are known these can be easily identified for any uploads to public repositories, any user can import a new project which overwrites the served content of th...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Finding Weaknesses Before the Attackers Do

This blog post originally appeared as an article in M-Trends 2019. FireEye Mandiant red team consultants perform objectives-based assessments that emulate real cyber attacks by advanced and nation state attackers across the entire attack lifecycle by blending into environments and observing how...

Cynet is Launching a Free Threat Assessment for Businesses

By Zehra Ali In the age of regular cyber attacks and constant digital threats, it’s no wonder that businesses find themselves spending more and more on defense. Cyber security spending by businesses climbed to $13 million per company in 2018, an increase of 12% on the previous year. It’s an...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Can a Vulnerability Scan break servers and services?

The most serious problem of Vulnerability Scanners is that they are too complex and unpredictable. Usually they don't affect the target hosts, but when they do, welcome to hell! And if you scan huge infrastructure, tens thousands hosts and more, it's not "if" the scanner will break the server it'...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

FreeBSD : Gitlab -- Multiple vulnerabilities (da459dbc-5586-11e9-abd6-001b217b3468)

Gitlab reports : DoS potential for regex in CI/CD refs Related branches visible in issues for guests Persistent XSS at merge request resolve conflicts Improper authorization control 'move issue' Guest users of private projects have access to releases DoS potential on project languages page Recuri...

The global data privacy roadmap: a question of risk

For most American businesses, complying with US data privacy laws follows a somewhat linear, albeit lengthy, path. Set up a privacy policy, don’t lie to the consumer, and check the specific rules if you’re a health care provider, video streaming company, or kids’ app maker. For American businesse...

PHOENIX CONTACT RAD-80211-XD

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.9 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Phoenix Contact Equipment: RAD-80211-XD Vulnerability: Command Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute system level commands...

FEMA Exposes PII for Millions of Hurricane, Wildfire Survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed the personal identifiable information of 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires in 2017, by oversharing survivor data with a contractor when it wasn’t necessary. Worse, the contractor’s networks has...

LibreOffice Macro Code Execution

It was found that libreoffice before versions 6.0.7 and 6.1.3 was vulnerable to a directory traversal attack which could be used to execute arbitrary macros bundled with a document. An attacker could craft a document, which when opened by LibreOffice, would execute a Python method from a script i...

AVEVA InduSoft Web Studio and InTouch Edge HMI

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: AVEVA Equipment: InduSoft Web Studio, InTouch Edge HMI Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Search Path Element 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow execution of unauthorized code or...

PEPPERL+FUCHS WirelessHART-Gateways

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit/public exploits are available Vendor: PEPPERL+FUCHS Equipment: WirelessHART-Gateways Vulnerability: Path Traversal 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow access to...

Gemalto Sentinel UltraPro

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Gemalto Equipment: Sentinel UltraPro Vulnerability: Uncontrolled Search Path Element 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow execution of unauthorized code or commands. 3...