CISA Releases Final Binding Operational Directive on Developing a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released Binding Operational Directive BOD 20-01, Develop and Publish a Vulnerability Disclosure Policy VDP. BOD 20-01 requires each federal agency to publish a VDP. Publication of agency VDPs will make it easier for users to report...

Hardcoded credentials

Halo blog 1.2.0 allows users to submit comments on blog posts via /api/content/posts/comments. The javascript code supplied by the attacker will then execute in the victim user's browser...

Threat Source newsletter for July 30, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Adversaries love to use headlines as part of their spam campaigns. From COVID-19, to Black Lives Matter and even Black Friday every year, the bad guys are wanting to capitalize on current events. Why is this the case, and when do...

Quick Player 1.3 - '.m3l' Buffer Overflow (Unicode & SEH)

Exploit Title: Quick Player 1.3 - '.m3l' Buffer Overflow Unicode & SEH Date: 2020-06-05 Author: Felipe Winsnes Software Link: http://download.cnet.com/Quick-Player/3640-21684-10871418.html Version: 1.3 Tested on: Windows 7 Proof of Concept: 1.- Run the python script "poc.py", it will create a new...

Rukovoditel Project Management CRM 2.5.2 SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Rukovoditel Project Management CRM 2.5.2 - 'reportsid' SQL Injection Google Dork: N/A Date: 2020-01-15 Blog: https://fatihhcelik.blogspot.com/ Exploit Author: Fatih Çelik Vendor Homepage: https://www.rukovoditel.net/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/rukovoditel/...

GHSA-V7X3-7HW7-PCJG Renovate vulnerable to leakage of temporary repository tokens into Pull Request comments

Impact Temporary repository tokens were leaked into Pull Requests comments in during certain Go Modules update failure scenarios. Patches The problem has been patched. Self-hosted users should upgrade to v19.38.7 or later. Workarounds Disable Go Modules support. References Blog post:...

Renovate vulnerable to leakage of temporary repository tokens into Pull Request comments

Impact Temporary repository tokens were leaked into Pull Requests comments in during certain Go Modules update failure scenarios. Patches The problem has been patched. Self-hosted users should upgrade to v19.38.7 or later. Workarounds Disable Go Modules support. References Blog post:...

ChaosPro 2.0 SEH Buffer Overflow

!C:\Python27\python.exe Title : ChaosPro 2.0 Twitter : @securitychops Blog Post : https://securitychops.com/2019/08/24/retro-exploit-series-episode-one-chaospro-3-1.html this needs to be a backwards jump to give us room to call stack jump code jmpback80 = "\x40\x75\x80\x75" jmpforward06 =...

A Hack to Steal a Tesla, a Yelp Overhaul, and More News

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less...

Zimbra Collaboration Autodiscover Servlet XXE / ProxyServlet SSRF

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Zimbra Collaboration Autodiscover Servlet XXE and ProxyServlet SSRF', 'Description' = %q This module exploits an XML external entity vulnerabilit...

Videos and Links from the Public-Interest Technology Track at the RSA Conference

Yesterday at the RSA Conference, I gave a keynote talk about the role of public-interest technologists in cybersecurity. Video here. I also hosted a one-day mini-track on the topic. We had six panels, and they were all great. If you missed it live, we have videos: How Public Interest Technologist...

Data Leakage from Encrypted Databases

Matthew Green has a super-interesting blog post about information leakage from encrypted databases. It describes the recent work by Paul Grubbs, Marie-Sarah Lacharité, Brice Minaud, and Kenneth G. Paterson. Even the summary is too much to summarize, so read it...

WordPress: Stored XSS in Post Preview as Contributor

Root cause I noticed that the getthecontent makes a pregreplacecallback after all other validation and sanitization has been performed. function getthecontent $morelinktext = null, $stripteaser = false global $page, $more, $preview, $pages, $multipage; $post = getpost; ... if $preview // Preview...

Design/Logic Flaw

Mezzanine CMS v4.3.1 allows XSS via the /admin/blog/blogcategory/add/?tofield=id&popup=1 title parameter at admin/blog/blogpost/add/...

CVE-2018-16632

Mezzanine CMS v4.3.1 allows XSS via the /admin/blog/blogcategory/add/?tofield=id&popup=1 title parameter at admin/blog/blogpost/add/...

Jetpack <= 6.4.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

According to RIPS Technologies: "RIPS detected a Stored XSS vulnerability that affects a module available to premium and professional users of Jetpack. Attackers who gained control over an account on the target site with at least Contributor privileges were able to inject arbitrary JavaScript cod...

Big Data and Cybersecurity: Opportunity or Threat?

By Marie Fincher Suppose you write for a living. You write articles and blog posts for a number of clients. In the course of that writing, you have to do a lot of research, accessing data and information from all over the web. The inevitable happens. You get hacked or you pick up a virus...

Friday Squid Blogging: New Tool for Grabbing Squid and other Fragile Sea Creatures

Interesting video of a robot grabber that's delicate enough to capture squid and even jellyfish in the ocean. 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...

'Zip Slip' Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects Across Many Ecosystems

Security researchers at British software firm Snyk have revealed details of a critical vulnerability that affects thousands of projects across many ecosystems and can be exploited by attackers to achieve code execution on the target systems. Dubbed "Zip Slip," the issue is an arbitrary file...

Linux/x86 execve /bin/sh Encoded Shellcode (44 bytes)

/ ; Title : Execve /bin/sh Shellcode encoded with ROT-13 + RShift-2 + XOR ; Date : April, 2018 ; Author : Nuno Freitas ; Blog Post : https://bufferoverflowed.wordpress.com/slae32/slae-32-shellcode-encoder/ ; Twitter : @nunof11 ; SLAE ID : SLAE-1112 ; Size : 44 bytes ; Tested on : i686 GNU/Linux...