AutoPentest: Enhancing Vulnerability Management with Autonomous LLM Agents

A recent area of increasing research is the use of Large Language Models LLMs in penetration testing, which promises to reduce costs and thus allow for higher frequency. We conduct a review of related work, identifying best practices and common evaluation issues. We then present AutoPentest, an...

CVE-2025-0217

BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access PRA versions prior to 25.1 are vulnerable to a local authentication bypass. A local authenticated attacker can view the connection details of a ShellJump session that was initiated with external tools, allowing unauthorized access to connected sessions...

Dynamic Tool Updates in Spring AI's Model Context Protocol

The Model Context Protocol MCP is a powerful feature in Spring AI that enables AI models to access external tools and resources through a standardized interface. One interesting capabilities of MCP is its ability to dynamically update available tools at runtime. This blog post explores how Spring...

USN-7444-1: Synapse vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Synapse network policies could be bypassed via specially crafted URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication mechanisms. CVE-2023-32683 It was discovered that Synapse exposed cached device information. An attacker could possibly use this issue t...

Synapse can be forced to thumbnail unexpected file formats, invoking external, potentially untrustworthy decoders

Impact In Synapse versions before 1.120.1, enabling the dynamicthumbnails option or processing a specially crafted request could trigger the decoding and thumbnail generation of uncommon image formats, potentially invoking external tools like Ghostscript for processing. This significantly expands...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53863

Synapse is an open-source Matrix homeserver. In Synapse versions before 1.120.1, enabling the dynamicthumbnails option or processing a specially crafted request could trigger the decoding and thumbnail generation of uncommon image formats, potentially invoking external tools like Ghostscript for...

CVE-2023-5002

A flaw was found in pgAdmin. This issue occurs when the pgAdmin server HTTP API validates the path a user selects to external PostgreSQL utilities such as pgdump and pgrestore. Versions of pgAdmin prior to 7.6 failed to properly control the server code executed on this API, allowing an...

CVE-2023-35934 yt-dlp File Downloader cookie leak

yt-dlp is a command-line program to download videos from video sites. During file downloads, yt-dlp or the external downloaders that yt-dlp employs may leak cookies on HTTP redirects to a different host, or leak them when the host for download fragments differs from their parent manifest's host...

Stop! Are you putting sensitive company data into ChatGPT?

Helping to reduce costs and enhance productivity are both things that your employer will look kindly upon. But what if you use an external tool for those tasks and the tasks involve confidential data that ended up on a server outside of the control of your company? Thats a problem. As a news writ...

[eBook] The Guide for Reducing SaaS Applications Risk for Lean IT Security Teams

The Software-as-a-service SaaS industry has gone from novelty to an integral part of today's business world in just a few years. While the benefits to most organizations are clear – more efficiency, greater productivity, and accessibility – the risks that the SaaS model poses are starting to beco...

TuxResponse - Linux Incident Response

TuxResponse is incident response script for linux systems written in bash. It can automate incident response activities on Linux systems and enable you to triage systems quickly, while not compromising with the results. Usually corporate systems would have some kind of monitoring and control, but...

Product security update: Virtuozzo Automator 6.1 Update 2 Hotfix 3

The new packages for Virtuozzo Automator 6.1 introducing a new feature, a security fix, and usability bug fixes for VA Agent for Linux. Vulnerability id: PVA-27270 In cases when multiple containers were processed in a single task by external tools like 'vzabackup', Power Panel of any container...

Recursively Crawl Single Page Applications: htcap

htcap is a web application scanner able to crawl single page application SPA in a recursive manner by intercepting ajax calls and DOM changes. Htcap is not just another vulnerability scanner since it’s focused mainly on the crawling process and uses external tools to discover vulnerabilities. It’...

SpeedPhishing Framework: SPF

This presentation will start by quickly exploring some of the common phishing attack tools and techniques. During the presentation, audience participation will be encouraged in the form of providing examples and personal experience in what phishing techniques people have used and what would be...

[Haveged 1.9.1] A simple entropy daemon

The haveged project is an attempt to provide an easy-to-use, unpredictable random number generator based upon an adaptation of the HAVEGE algorithm. Haveged was created to remedy low-entropy conditions in the Linux random device that can occur under some workloads, especially on headless servers...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: prewikka-0.9.14-2.fc9

Prewikka is a graphical front-end analysis console for the Prelude Hybrid IDS Framework. Providing numerous features, Prewikka facilitates the work of users and analysts. It provides alert aggregation and sensor and hearbeat views, and has user management and configurable filters. It has access t...

Design/Logic Flaw

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in DFLabs PTK 1.0.0 through 1.0.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands in processes launched by PTK's Apache HTTP Server via 1 "external tools" or 2 a crafted forensic image...