Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-14-353-01B Network Time Protocol Vulnerabilities that was published February 4, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Google Security Team researchers Neel Mehta and Stephen Roettger have coordinated multiple...

Innominate mGuard Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Innominate Security Technologies has identified a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting all mGuard devices. Innominate has produced a firmware patch that mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following Innominate mGuard...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat for Windows and Macintosh. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Adobe Security Bulletin APSB14-20 and...

Arbiter Systems 1094B GPS Clock Spoofing Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the US-CERT secure Portal library on December 11, 2014, and is being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Arbiter Systems has identified a GPS clock spoofing vulnerability in its 1094B clock. Arbiter Systems has produced a new product that is no...

Four Vulnerabilities Patched in SCADA Server

Four different remotely exploitable vulnerabilities were recently discovered and patched in a popular SCADA server. The vulnerabilities exist in some versions of IntegraXor, a SCADA server manufactured by Ecava Sdn Bhd, a Malaysian-based software company. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber...

Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS XML External Entity

OVERVIEW Timur Yunusov, Alexey Osipov, and Ilya Karpov of Positive Technologies Inc. have identified an XML external entity processing vulnerability in the Yokogawa FAST/TOOLS application. Yokogawa has produced a service pack that mitigates this vulnerability. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following...

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.120 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update addresses multiple vulnerabilities one of which could potentially allow an attacker to cause a denial of service. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome release blog and apply the...

Microsoft Releases September 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, .NET Framework, Internet Explorer and Lync Server as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for September 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of privilege, or denial of service...

Traffic Networks Firm Patches Sensor Vulnerabilities

A year after it was notified about a security vulnerability, a company in charge of manufacturing sensors used in traffic control systems has patched a series of previously disclosed bugs that could have opened the products up to a handful of exploits. A warning from the Industrial Control System...

Some Cable Modems Found to Leak Sensitive Data Via SNMP

Cable modems sold by two manufacturers expose a wide variety of sensitive information over SNMP, including usernames and passwords, WEP keys and SSIDs. Researchers who discovered the vulnerabilities say they’re trivially exploitable and plan to release Metasploit modules for them later this month...

WordPress Releases Security Update

WordPress 3.9.2 has been released to address multiple vulnerabilities, one of which could allow a possible denial of service issue in PHP’s XML processing. WordPress 3.7.3 or 3.8.3 users will be updated to 3.7.4 or 3.8.4. Users operating older, unsupported versions of WordPress are encouraged to...

Android App SSL Certificate Validation Errors Enumerated

A growing compilation of close to 350 Android applications that fail to perform SSL certificate validation over HTTPS has been put together by the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Researcher Will Dormann created a large spreadsheet host...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities

Advisory ID Internal CORE-2014-0005 1. Advisory Information Title: Advantech WebAccess Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2014-0005 Advisory URL:http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/advantech-webaccess-vulnerabilities Date published: 2014-09-02 Date of last update: 2014-09-01 Vendors contacted:...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 37.0.2062.94 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update includes 50 security fixes some of which could allow a remote attacker to obtain unauthorized access or cause a denial of service. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome release blog a...

Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory [DTC-A-20140820-001] check_mk vulnerabilities

Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory DTC-A-20140820-001 Summary: Several vulnerabilities were found in checkmk prior versions 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5i4. The vulnerabilities are: 1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS 2 - write access to config files .mk files 3 - arbitrary code execution Recommendations:...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of Backoff malware compromising a significant number of major enterprise networks as well as small and medium businesses. US-CERT encourages administrators and operators of Point-of-Sale systems to review the Backoff malware alert to help determine if your network may be affected...

Siemens Patches DoS Vulnerability in SIMATIC S7

Siemens released an update for one of its automation systems late last week, patching a denial of service vulnerability in all versions of its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU prior to V1.6. An advisory on the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team’s ICS-CERT website warned about the...

Breach of Patient Identification Information

US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services to assist in sharing...