Zero-Day Vulnerabilities against Windows in the NSA Tools Released by the Shadow Brokers

In April, the Shadow Brokers -- presumably Russia -- released a batch of Windows exploits from what is presumably the NSA. Included in that release were eight different Windows vulnerabilities. Given a presumed theft date of the data as sometime between 2012 and 2013 -- based on timestamps of the...

Continental AG Infineon S-Gold 2 (PMB 8876)

CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Public exploits are available. Vendor: Continental AG Equipment: Infineon S-Gold 2 PMB 8876 Vulnerabilities: Stack-Based Buffer Overflow, Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer AFFECTED PRODUC...

July 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Wright Brothers” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Security expert shares tips...

Fedora 26 : kernel (2017-deb70b495e)

The 4.11.11 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introduci...

GLSA-201707-15 : Adobe Flash Player: Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201707-15 Adobe Flash Player: Multiple Vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe Flash Player. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker could possibly...

Virtual Machine Automation (vm-automation) repository released

Rapid7 just released a new public repo called vm-automation. The vm-automation repository is a Python library that encapsulates existing methodologies for virtual machine and hypervisor automation and provides a platform-agnostic Python API. Currently, only ESXi and VMWare workstation are...

A King’s Ransom It is Not

The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves "The ShadowBrokers". These WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware events are the biggest in the sense that they spread the quickest and most...

EnglishmansDentist Exploit Analysis

Introduction Introduction We are continuing our series of blog posts dissecting the exploits released by ShadowBrokers in April 2017. After the first two posts about the SMB exploits known as EternalChampion and EternalSynergy, we’ll move this time to analyze a different tool and we’ll focus on t...

New Linux Malware Exploits SambaCry Flaw to Silently Backdoor NAS Devices

Remember SambaCry? Almost two months ago, we reported about a 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba networking software, allowing a hacker to remotely take full control of a vulnerable Linux and Unix machines. We dubbed the vulnerability as SambaCry, because of its...

KLA11074 Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Oracle VM VirtualBox. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to to cause a denial of service, read and write accesible data and possibly to obtain sensitive information. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. Multiple...

Burp Vulners Scanner - Vulnerability scanner based on vulners.com search API

Burp Suite scanner plugin based on Vulners.com vulnerability database API Search fingerprints in HTTP response inspired by plugin "Software Version Reporter" and check found version in vulners.com vulnerability database Experemental Check unique URLs in vulners.com finding exploits for such paths...

Adobe Fixes Six Vulnerabilities in Flash, Connect

Adobe fixed six vulnerabilities in two products, one of the company’s smallest security bulletins in recent memory, as part of its regularly scheduled round of updates on Tuesday. Included are fixes for the company’s Flash Player software platform, including a critical vulnerability CVE-2017-3099...

PCRE 'pcre_exec.c' Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions is a software developer Philip Hazel developed a use of C language written in open source regular expression library. PCRE suffers from a local denial of service vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause stack exhaustion, resulting in a...

Apache Struts 2.3.x Showcase App Struts 1 Plugin ActionMessage Class Error Message Input Handling RCE (S2-048)

The version of Apache Struts running on the remote Windows host is 2.3.x. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in the Struts 1 plugin showcase app in the ActionMessage class due to improper validation of user-supplied input passed via error messages. An...

LARE - [L]ocal [A]uto [R]oot [E]xploiter is a Bash Script That Helps You Deploy Local Root Exploits

L ocal A uto R oot E xploiter is a simple bash script that helps you deploy local root exploits from your attacking machine when your victim machine do not have internet connectivity. The script is useful in a scenario where your victim machine do not have an internet connection eg. while you piv...

Good Article About Google's Project Zero

Fortune magazine just published a good article about Google's Project Zero, which finds and publishes exploits in other companies' software products. I have mixed feeling about it. The project does great work, and the Internet has benefited enormously from these efforts. But as long as it is...

Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX Cryptographic Weakness

The version of Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX installed on the remote Windows host is affected by a cryptographic weakness in Telerik.Web.UI.dll. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via specially crafted data, to disclose encryption keys. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Eternal Champion Exploit Analysis

Recently, a group named the ShadowBrokers published several remote server exploits targeting various protocols on older versions of Windows. In this post we are going to look at the EternalChampion exploit in detail to see what vulnerabilities it exploited, how it exploited them, and how the late...

Eternal Champion Exploit Analysis

Recently, a group named the ShadowBrokers published several remote server exploits targeting various protocols on older versions of Windows. In this post we are going to look at the EternalChampion exploit in detail to see what vulnerabilities it exploited, how it exploited them, and how the late...

ICSA-17-180-01A_Siemens SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit, and SIMOTION P320 (Update A)

CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit PCU, SIMOTION P320 Vulnerability: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls UPDATED INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the...