A week in security (April 7 – April 13)

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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : curl (EulerOS-SA-2025-1289)

According to the versions of the curl packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : When asked to both use a .netrc file for credentials and to follow HTTP redirects, curl could leak the password used for the first host to the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-28849

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - follow-redirects is an open source, drop-in replacement for Node's http and https modules that automatically follows redirects. In affected versions...

ClearML Vault API disabled vaults retrieval vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2024-2112 ClearML Vault API disabled vaults retrieval vulnerability February 6, 2025 CVE Number CVE-2024-43779 SUMMARY An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the Vault API functionality of ClearML Enterprise Server 3.22.5-1533. A specially crafted HTTP...

GitHub Desktop Vulnerability Risks Credential Leaks via Malicious Remote URLs

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in GitHub Desktop as well as other Git-related projects that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user's Git credentials. "Git implements a protocol called Git Credential Protocol to retrieve...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5850-1] git security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5850-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso January 26, 2025 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

macOS 14.x < 14.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (120903)

The remote host is running a version of macOS / Mac OS X that is 14.x prior to 14.5. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.5, macOS Ventura 13.6.7, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, iOS 16.7.8 and...

CVE-2025-23040 Maliciously crafted remote URLs could lead to credential leak in GitHub Desktop

GitHub Desktop is an open-source Electron-based GitHub app designed for git development. An attacker convincing a user to clone a repository directly or through a submodule can allow the attacker access to the user's credentials through the use of maliciously crafted remote URL. GitHub Desktop...

Git Credential Manager carriage-return character in remote URL allows malicious repository to leak credentials

Description The Git credential protocol is text-based over standard input/output, and consists of a series of lines of key-value pairs in the format key=value. Git's documentation restricts the use of the NUL \0 character and newlines to form part of the keys^1 or values. When Git reads from...

CVE-2024-50338

Git Credential Manager (GCM) on Windows/macOS/Linux is affected by CVE-2024-50338 due to a newline handling mismatch with Git. GCM’s ReadLineAsync accepts LF, CRLF, and CR, while Git’s credential parsing forbids an isolated CR, enabling an attacker to craft a malicious remote URL (for example, ht...

CVE-2024-11053

A flaw was found in curl. A logic error when processing credentials from the .netrc file while performing redirects allows the transfer of credentials from the original host to the followed-to host under certain circumstances, leaking the credentials to the followed-to host. Mitigation Avoid usin...

Shadow IT: Personal GitHub Repos Expose Employee Cloud Secrets

By Deeba Ahmed Alerted by a recent discovery of employee personal GitHub repos exposing internal Azure and Red Hat secrets, this article dives into the dangers of Shadow IT and offers solutions to prevent cloud credential leaks and secure your cloud environment. This is a post from HackRead.com...

Cyber Threat Landscape: 7 Key Findings and Upcoming Trends for 2024

The 2023/2024 Axur Threat Landscape Report provides a comprehensive analysis of the latest cyber threats. The information combines data from the platform's surveillance of the Surface, Deep, and Dark Web with insights derived from the in-depth research and investigations conducted by the Threat...

CVE-2023-20885 CF workflows leak credentials in system audit logs

Vulnerability in Cloud Foundry Notifications, Cloud Foundry SMB-volume release, Cloud FOundry cf-nfs-volume release.This issue affects Notifications: All versions prior to 63; SMB-volume release: All versions prior to 3.1.19; cf-nfs-volume release: 5.0.X versions prior to 5.0.27, 7.1.X versions...

CVE-2023-33001

Jenkins HashiCorp Vault Plugin 360.v0a1c04cf807d and earlier does not properly mask i.e., replace with asterisks credentials in the build log when push mode for durable task logging is enabled...

PT-2023-6701 · Ibm · Ibm Spectrum Virtualize

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM Spectrum Virtualize version 8.5 Description: The issue is related to insufficient protection of service data during the download process from Fix Central, which could lead to the disclosure of sensitive credential information under certai...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 110 — Mozilla

The Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header could allow an attacker to leak a child iframe's unredacted URI when interaction with that iframe triggers a redirect. A background script invoking requestFullscreen and then blocking the main thread could force the browser into fullscreen mode...

Over a Dozen Flaws Found in Siemens' Industrial Network Management System

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details about 15 security flaws in Siemens SINEC network management system NMS, some of which could be chained by an attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. "The vulnerabilities, if exploited, pose a number of risks to Siemens device...

GHSA-RF5Q-8GX3-XQFC Cross-Site Request Forgery in Jenkins Git Plugin

Git Plugin connects to a user-specified Git repository as part of form validation. An attacker with no direct access to Jenkins but able to guess at a username/password credentials ID could trick a developer with job configuration permissions into following a link with a maliciously crafted Jenki...

SocialPwned - An OSINT Tool That Allows To Get The Emails, From A Target, Published In Social Networks Such As Instagram, Linkedin And Twitter To Find Possible Credentials Leaks In PwnDB Or Dehashed And Obtain Google Account Information Via GHunt

SocialPwned is an OSINT tool that allows to get the emails, from a target, published in social networks like Instagram, Linkedin and Twitter to find the possible credential leaks in PwnDB or Dehashed and obtain Google account information via GHunt. The purpose of this tool is to facilitate the...