New PseudoManuscrypt Malware Infected Over 35,000 Computers in 2021

Industrial and government organizations, including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories, are the targets of a new malware botnet dubbed PseudoManyscrypt that has infected roughly 35,000 Windows computers this year alone. The name comes from its similarities to...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

Log4Shell Honeypot Enhanced dockerized honeypot for CVE-2021...

A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

Posted by Ian Beer & Samuel Groß of Google Project Zero We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture SEAR group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis. The editorial opinions reflected below ar...

Improper Authentication in HashiCorp Nomad

HashiCorp Nomad and Nomad Enterprise up to 1.0.13, 1.1.7, and 1.2.0, with the QEMU task driver enabled, allowed authenticated users with job submission capabilities to bypass the configured allowed image paths. Fixed in 1.0.14, 1.1.8, and 1.2.1...

CVE-2021-21957

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Remote Server functionality of Dream Report ODS Remote Connector 20.2.16900.0. A specially-crafted command injection can lead to elevated capabilities. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability...

Privilege escalation

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Remote Server functionality of Dream Report ODS Remote Connector 20.2.16900.0. A specially-crafted command injection can lead to elevated capabilities. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability...

PublishPress Capabilities < 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to Blog Compromise

The plugin does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating the plugin's settings via the init hook, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could update arbitrary blog options, such as the default role and make any...

PublishPress Capabilities < 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Options Update to Blog Compromise

The plugin does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating the plugin's settings via the init hook, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a result, unauthenticated attackers could update arbitrary blog options, such as the default role and make any...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-25032

The PublishPress Capabilities WordPress plugin before 2.3.1, PublishPress Capabilities Pro WordPress plugin before 2.3.1 does not have authorisation and CSRF checks when updating the plugin's settings via the init hook, and does not ensure that the options to be updated belong to the plugin. As a...

WordPress PublishPress Capabilities plugin <= 2.3 - Unauthenticated Settings Change vulnerability

Unauthenticated Settings Change vulnerability discovered by Krzysztof Zając in WordPress PublishPress Capabilities plugin versions = 2.3. Solution Update the WordPress PublishPress Capabilities plugin to the latest available version at least 2.3.1...

jenkins-2-plugins/subversion: does not restrict the name of a file when looking up a subversion key

An incorrect access restriction vulnerability was found in the Subversion Plugin for Jenkins. An agent's ability to learn the name of a file is not restricted when looking up a subversion key file on the controller. This may allow attackers to control agent processes and read arbitrary files on t...

Hackers Targeting Biomanufacturing Facilities With Tardigrade Malware

An advanced persistent threat APT has been linked to cyberattacks on two biomanufacturing companies that occurred this year with the help of a custom malware loader called "Tardigrade." That's according to an advisory published by Bioeconomy Information Sharing and Analysis Center BIO-ISAC this...

Exploit for Privilege Context Switching Error in Canonical Ubuntu_Linux

This is a PoC exploit for CVE-2021-3493, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Ubuntu OverlayFS. The exploit targets Ubuntu versions 20.10, 20.04 LTS, 19.04, 18.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS, and 14.04 ESM. The vulnerability arises from a Linux kernel issue where it did not properly validate the...

kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

4.18.0-348.OL8 - Update Oracle Linux certificates Kevin Lyons - Disable signing for aarch64 Ilya Okomin - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list olkmodsigningkey.pem Orabug: 29539237 - Update x509.genkey Orabug: 24817676 - Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x...

tCell by Rapid7 Supports the Newly Released .NET 6.0

We’re excited to share that we've coordinated our recent .NET and .NET Core agent releases with the brand new .NET 6.0 release from Microsoft. What is tCell? Since the founding of tCell by Rapid7, our web application and API protection solution, we’ve prided ourselves on providing both breadth an...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Security Monitor SMSyscallCommitImageStaging 1BL firmware downgrade vulnerability

Summary A firmware downgrade vulnerability exists in the Security Monitor SMSyscallCommitImageStaging 1BL functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 21.01. A specially-crafted set of Secmon syscalls can lead to downgrading the version of the 1BL firmware. An attacker can use syscalls to trigger this...

Nvidia vGPU Software Resource Management Error Vulnerability

Nvidia vGPU Software is a management software from Nvidia Corporation for providing GPU capabilities to virtual machines. NVIDIA vGPU software is vulnerable to a resource management error that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code that affects integrity and availability...

PlayStation: bd-j exploit chain

Hey PlayStation! Below are 5 vulnerabilities chained together that allows an attacker to gain JIT capabilities and execute arbitrary payloads. The provided payload triggers a buffer overflow that causes a kernel panic. Please consider each of the vulnerabilities individually. AFAIK, this is the...

CVE-2021-3847

An unauthorized access to the execution of the setuid file with capabilities flaw in the Linux kernel OverlayFS subsystem was found in the way user copying a file with capabilities from a nosuid mount into another mount. A local user could use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system...

Podcast: 67% of Orgs Have Been Hit by Ransomware at Least Once

A recent report found that two-thirds, or 67 percent, of surveyed organizations have suffered a ransomware attack, about half have been hit multiple times, and 16 percent have been hit three or more times. According to Fortinet’s Global State of Ransomware Report 2021 PDF, released last week, mos...