Node.js third-party modules: Privilage escalation with malicious .npmrc

Hello. I'm forwarding to you my conversation with npm staff regarding security issue. It allows to escalate to root privilages of victim using either: a basic social engineering - convincing victim to run npm in attacker-controlled folder eg. repository, including such innocent ones like "npm hel...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2018)

I'm at Carnegie Mellon University, at the eleventh Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and myself. The 50 or so people in the roo...

Sit-down with Wallarm CTO, Alex Golovko

I have had a chance to pose a few questions to Alexander Golovko, one of the co-founders of Wallarm and our CTO. Here are Alex’s reflections on Wallarm and some technology trends. How did Wallarm get its start? Ivan Wallarm’s founder has involved me in various projects on and off since 2010. By...

Microsoft Windows: Set the default behavior for AutoRun

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: windefaultbehaviourautorun.nasl 11337 2018-09-11 14:23:53Z emoss $ Check value for Set the default behavior for AutoRun Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

openthread/radio-receive-done-fuzzer: Index-out-of-bounds in ot::RouterTable::UpdateAllocation

Project: https://github.com/openthread/openthread.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5160541604544512 Project: openthread Fuzzer: libFuzzeropenthreadradio-receive-done-fuzzer Fuzz target binary: radio-receive-done-fuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanopenthread Platform Id: linux...

FAQ: Badge Behavior and Notifications Behavior for End Users

This article provides frequently asked questions and answers for Badge behavior and Notifications behavior. Badge Behaviour for End Users Q: What does the badge count represent? A : The badge count represents the total number of unread count of mails for your entire inbox folder. Q: Do I still ha...

Code injection

SAP MaxDB ODBC driver all versions before 7.9.09.07 allows an attacker to inject code that can be executed by the application. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the application...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

CVE-2018-8897

A statement in the System Programming Guide of the Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual SDM was mishandled in the development of some or all operating-system kernels, resulting in unexpected behavior for DB exceptions that are deferred by MOV SS or POP SS, as demonstrated ...

Debug Exception May Cause Unexpected Behavior

CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information for CVE-2018-8897 – unexpected behavior for debug exceptions. A local attacker could exploit this bug to obtain sensitive information. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review CERT/CC’s Vulnerability Note VU 631579 for more...

IoT Inspector Tool from Princeton

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector, a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. They've already used the tool to study a bunch of different IoT devices. From their blog post: Finding 3: Many IoT...

Linux RNG Flaws

Linux RNG flaws CVE-2018-1108 There are several issues in drivers/char/random.c, in particular related to the behavior of the /dev/urandom RNG during and shortly after boot. I'm sending this to [email protected] and Theodore Ts'o for now; it might make sense to also add Jason Donenfeld, since...

CVE-2017-9658

Certain 802.11 network management messages have been determined to invoke wireless access point blacklisting security defenses when not required, which can necessitate intervention by hospital staff to reset the device and reestablish a network connection to the Wi-Fi access point. During this...

CVE-2017-9657

Under specific 802.11 network conditions, a partial re-association of the Philips IntelliVue MX40 Version B.06.18 WLAN monitor to the central monitoring station is possible. In this state, the central monitoring station can indicate the MX40 is not connected or associated to the central monitor,...

Friday Squid Blogging: Bizarre Contorted Squid

This bizarre contorted squid might be a new species, or a previously known species exhibiting a new behavior. No one knows. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Uber: Uber employees are sharing information on productforums.google.com

@researcher found an exposed Google spreadsheet on productforums.google.com containing mostly test data. The researcher also found screenshots of Uber tools on Prezi containing driver personal information. This was result of a small research done after https://twitter.com/xKushagra released tip...

graphicsmagick/coder_DPX_fuzzer: Unknown signal in TentUpsampleChroma

Project: http://hg.code.sf.net/p/graphicsmagick/code Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5174667594694656 Project: graphicsmagick Fuzzer: libFuzzergraphicsmagickcoderDPXfuzzer Fuzz target binary: coderDPXfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsangraphicsmagick Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

Microsoft Windows 10: Send file samples when further analysis is required

This policy setting configures behaviour of samples submission when opt-in for MAPS telemetry is set. Possible settings: - 0: Always prompt - 1: Send safe samples automatically - 2: Never send - 3: Send all samples automatically OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

CVE-2018-10220

Glastopf 3.1.3-dev has SSRF, as demonstrated by the abc.php a parameter. NOTE: the vendor indicates that this is intentional behavior because the product is a web application honeypot, and modules/handlers/emulators/rfi.py supports Remote File Inclusion emulation...