McAfee Endpoint Security for Windows 10.5.x / 10.6.x / 10.7.0.x Improper Access Control (SB10314)

The version of the McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows installed on the remote Windows host is 10.5.x , 10.6.x, or 10.7.0.x. It is, therefore, affected by an improper access control vulnerability in ESConfigTool.exe which allows a local administrator to alter the ENS configuration up to and...

Announcing the Release of Malware Prevention for Linux

The VMware Carbon Black team has a mission to keep your entire organization safe from cyber attacks. To deliver on this for today’s landscape, the Carbon Black Cloud platform has added malware prevention for Linux to bring the entire protection lifecycle to Windows, macOS, and Linux. With Linux n...

CVE-2020-7263

Improper access control vulnerability in ESconfigTool.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows all current versions allows local administrator to alter ENS configuration up to and including disabling all protection offered by ENS via insecurely implemented encryption of configuration for...

CVE-2020-7263

Improper access control vulnerability in ESconfigTool.exe in McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows all current versions allows local administrator to alter ENS configuration up to and including disabling all protection offered by ENS via insecurely implemented encryption of configuration for...

CVE-2020-7263

CVE-2020-7263 concerns an improper access control vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows, affecting ESConfigTool.exe across all current versions. The issue allows a local administrator to alter ENS configuration, up to and including disabling all protection, due to insecurely...

Tinfoil Chat - Onion-routed, Endpoint Secure Messaging System

Tinfoil Chat TFC is a FOSS+FHD peer-to-peer messaging system that relies on high assurance hardware architecture to protect users from passive collection, MITM attacks and most importantly, remote key exfiltration. TFC is designed for people with one of the most complex threat models: organized...

Riding another wave of success for our multi-layered detection and response approach

The corporate endpoint is a constant battle between cybersecurity white hats and criminal attackers. According to one study from the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations were victims of an attack on the endpoint in 2019. The risks and costs associated with undetected threats are immeasurable...

Check Point Local Privilege Escalation

The remote host is running a version of Checkpoint Endpoint Security Initial Client. that is vulnerable to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability exists because vulnerable versions attempt to load a DLL that is placed in any PATH location on a clean install. An attacker cou...

Q&A: Insights from the Red Canary 2020 Threat Detection Report

In light of the latest update to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, Red Canary has developed a Threat Detection Report uncovering the top techniques attackers use to target your organization. To understand the significance of the report, we turned to two of VMware Carbon Black’s top threat experts, Greg...

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2020 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave

I’m proud to announce that Microsoft is positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2020. Among the Leaders in the report, Microsoft received the highest score in the current offering category. Microsoft also received the highest score of all participating...

Crescendo: Real Time Event Viewer for macOS

Prior to 2017, researchers couldn’t easily monitor actions performed by a process on macOS and had to resort to coding scripts that produced low level system call data. FireEye released Monitor.app in 2017 that enabled collection of information on macOS at a higher level; at a simplified data set...

Download Guide — Advanced Threat Protection Beyond the AV

At a certain point, almost every organization reaches the conclusion that there is a need to move past just the standard AV and firewall stack in order to soundly protect their environment. The common practice in recent years is to gain extra protection through implementing either EDR\EPP solutio...

Simplicity is the Key to Enterprise Cybersecurity

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. In today’s digital environment, companies are...

Bringing Intrinsic Security to RSA Conference 2020

This year at the RSA Conference, VMware will be highlighting our vision for Intrinsic Security, a safer, more effective security built into the fabric of the various infrastructure control points that are vulnerable to attack endpoint, identity, network, cloud, workload. The VMware Carbon Black...

CVE-2020-7251

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security ENS Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS...

CVE-2020-7251

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security ENS Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS...

CVE-2020-7251

The CVE-2020-7251 issue affects McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows specifically its Configuration Tool. The root cause is improper access control in the Configuration Tool prior to ENS 10.6.1 (February 2020 Update), enabling local users to disable security features via unauthorized use of...

CVE-2020-5206 Authentication Bypass For Endpoints With Anonymous Access in OpenCast

In Opencast before 7.6 and 8.1, using a remember-me cookie with an arbitrary username can cause Opencast to assume proper authentication for that user even if the remember-me cookie was incorrect given that the attacked endpoint also allows anonymous access. This way, an attacker can, for example...

CVE-2019-17099

An Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in EPSecurityService.exe as used in Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools versions prior to 6.6.11.163 allows an attacker to load an arbitrary DLL file from the search path. This issue affects: Bitdefender EPSecurityService.exe versions prior to 6.6.11.163...

CVE-2019-17099

CVE-2019-17099 affects Bitdefender Endpoint Security Tools, specifically EPSecurityService.exe, in versions prior to 6.6.11.163. The issue is an Untrusted Search Path vulnerability that allows loading an arbitrary DLL from the search path. Evidence across sources confirms the vulnerable component...