elasticsearch: remote code execution via Groovy sandbox bypass

It was reported that Elasticsearch versions 1.3.0-1.3.7 and 1.4.0-1.4.2 have vulnerabilities in the Groovy scripting engine. The vulnerability allows an attacker to construct Groovy scripts that escape the sandbox and execute shell commands as the user running the Elasticsearch Java VM...

'Anonymous' FTP Servers Leaving Healthcare Data Exposed

Hackers craving personal health care information are targeting exposed FTP servers. The FBI issued a warning last week that focused on an increase in criminal activity targeting FTP servers used by medical and dental organizations that are configured to allow anonymous access without...

Open Source Large Scale Full Packet Capturing: Moloch

Open Source Large Scale Full Packet Capturing Moloch is an open source, large scale, full packet capturing, indexing, and database system. Moloch augments your current security infrastructure to store and index network traffic in standard PCAP format, providing fast, indexed access. An intuitive...

Personalized User Focused Security: Stethoscope

Stethoscope is a web application that collects information from existing device data sources e.g., JAMF or LANDESK on a given user’s devices and gives them clear and specific recommendations for securing their systems. Stethoscope consists of two primary pieces: a Python-based back-end and a...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Elasticsearch is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. This is because dynamic scripting is enabled by default, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter to search...

Information Disclosure Through Logs

logstash-core is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability is possible because it logs information from HTTP authorization headers which could contain sensitive information. Users who use secure communication from logstash to elasticsearch via basic authorization using elastic shiel...

Protect your data from ransom attacks

I wanted to bring attention to two blog posts we have done recently in response to the recent set of data ransom attacks affecting Elasticsearch and other systems. The two are: For Elasticsearch: Protecting Against Attacks that Hold Your Data for Ransom For Kibana: Guarding Kibana from Data...

Malware exploit: Xdh

Type: Remote Code Execution Author: shipcod3 / Jay Turla This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class MetasploitModule Msf::Exploit::Remote Rank = ExcellentRanking include...

Exploit for CVE-2015-1427

Elasticsearch 1.4.0 1.4.2 Remote Code Execution Elastics...

Pornhub: Unsecured Kibana/Elasticsearch instance

The researcher has found an insecure Kibana instance accessible to the public. A publicly accessible Kibana instance was identified. This vulnerability was discovered using the infrastructure monitoring platform BugLabs.me - http://buglabs.me...

F-Scrack - A Single File Bruteforcer Supports Multi-Protocol

F-Scrack is a single file bruteforcer supports multi-protocol, no extra library requires except python standard library, which is ideal for a quick test. Currently support protocol: FTP, MySQL, MSSQL，MongoDB，Redis，Telnet，Elasticsearch，PostgreSQL. Compatible with OSX, Linux, Windows, Python 2.6+...

Logstash 5.0.1 released with a security patch

Hi all, we would like to announce that Logstash 5.0.1 has been released with an important security patch. Prior to Logstash version 5.0.1, Elasticsearch Output plugin when updating connections after sniffing, would log to file HTTP basic auth credentials. We advise our users using Logstash and...

Elasticsearch Detection

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Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform: The Hive

Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform TheHive is a scalable 3-in-1 open source and free solution designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs and any information security practitioner dealing with security incidents that need to be investigated and acted upon swiftly. TheHi...

Regular Expression Denial Of Service (ReDoS)

elasticsearch is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service ReDoS attacks. A malicious user can trigger a infinite loop using two successive wildcard characters which can lead to a denial of service...

Elasticsearch < 1.6.1 LFI

LFI on snapshot Vulnerability Type: Local File Include For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...

Network-based DNS logging in Go: GoPassiveDNS

A network-capture based DNS logger, inspired by passivedns. It uses gopacket to deal with libpcap and packet processing. It outputs JSON logs. It is intended to deal with high volume query capture in environments with anywhewre from one to hundreds of DNS resolvers. Why not use PassiveDNS from...

WhoDat - Pivotable Reverse WhoIs / PDNS Fusion with Registrant Tracking & Alerting plus API for automated queries (JSON/CSV/TXT)

The WhoDat project is a front-end for whoisxmlapi data, or any whois data living in a MongoDB. It integrates whois data, current IP resolutions and passive DNS. In addition to providing an interactive, pivotable application for analysts to perform research, it also has an API which will allow...

Incident Response Forensic Framework: nightHawk Response

Incident Response Forensic Framework Custom built application for asynchronus forensic data presentation on an ElasticSearch backend. This application is designed to ingest a Mandiant Redline “collections” file and give flexibility in search/stack and tagging. The application was born out of the...

Logstash 2.3.3 Elasticsearch Output Vulnerability

Hi all, we would like to announce a security vulnerability we discovered in our testing. Logstash 2.3.4 has been released with a patch to fix this. Issue Prior to version 2.3.4, Elasticsearch Output plugin would log to file HTTP authorization headers which could contain sensitive information...