AI as Sensemaking for Public Comments

Its become fashionable to think of artificial intelligence as an inherently dehumanizing technology, a ruthless force of automation that has unleashed legions of virtual skilled laborers in faceless form. But what if AI turns out to be the one tool able to identify what makes your ideas special,...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance, Identity Manager virtual appliance component vulnerable to spoofing attacks (CVE-2022-38712)

Summary IBM Security Verify Governance, Identity Manager virtual appliance component has addressed the following vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-38712 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0, 8.0, 8.5, and 9.0 Web services could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability for Dojo fixed in IBM Security Verify Governance [CVE-2021-23450]

Summary Security Vulnerability for Dojo component has been fixed in IBM Security Verify Governance CVE-2021-23450 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-23450 DESCRIPTION: Dojo could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a prototype pollution in the setObject...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Verify Governance uses components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-22696, CVE-2021-30468, CVE-2020-1954)

Summary Components with the following Known Vulnerabilities have been upgraded in IBM Security Verify Governance. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-22696 DESCRIPTION: Apache CXF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper validation of requesturi parameter by the OAuth 2...

User who stakes into StRSRVotes doesn't have any voting power

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact User who stakes into StRSRVotes doesn't have any voting power. This is not intuitive clear and user who thinks that he can vote, actually will not be able until he will delegate votes to himself. Proof of Concept StRSRVotes contract extends StRSR which h...

AssetRegistry.swapRegistered can be called with low gas to make basket be disabled

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Attacker can disable basket, when swapping or unregistering not basket asset. Proof of Concept AssetRegistry.swapRegistered and AssetRegistry.unregister are both functions that can be called by governance only. It's possible that after proposal is passed...

SaaS in the Real World: How Global Food Chains Can Secure Their Digital Dish

The Quick Serve Restaurant QSR industry is built on consistency and shared resources. National chains like McDonald's and regional ones like Cracker Barrel grow faster by reusing the same business model, decor, and menu, with little change from one location to the next. QSR technology stacks mirr...

Privilege Escalation

github.com/stolostron/governance-policy-propagator is vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. In a formed policy, the library makes it possible for dynamically acquired policies to leverage cluster scoped access, enabling a local attacker to access resources from the namespace where the policy was...

Mislead of policy holders due to wrong role description, Unwanted roles creation

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Proof of Concept initializeRoles is a public function so can be used by anyone to make the roles even if it is not wanted by the governance. updateRoleDescriptions is also a public function which can be changed by anyone hence changing the role descripti...

In LlamaRelativeQuorum, the governance result might be incorrect as it counts the wrong approval/disapproval.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact In LlamaRelativeQuorum, the governance result might be incorrect as it counts the wrong approval/disapproval. Proof of Concept The LlamaRelativeQuorum uses approval/disapproval thresholds that are specified as percentages of total supply and the...

In LlamaRelativeQuorum, actionApprovalSupply/actionDisapprovalSupply can be changed anytime.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The governance result might be manipulated seriously because the approval/disapproval supplies can be changed anytime by an attacker. Proof of Concept The LlamaRelativeQuorum uses approval/disapproval thresholds that are specified as percentages of total...

Challenger can change the output root or delete output root arbitrarily to authorize invalid withdrawal or block withdrawal infinitely

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Challenger can change the output root or delete output root arbitrarily Proof of Concept In the OptimismPortal.sol, when prove and finalize the transaction the output root needs to be verificated // Grab the OutputProposal from the L2OutputOracle, will...

When deploying contracts in PermissionedNodeRegistry.deployWithdrawVault(), PermissionlessNodeRegistry.deployWithdrawVault(), an attacker can find out in advance the address of the future deployed contract and deploy his own at this address

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The address of the new contract depends solely on the salt parameter, which is calculated from user-provided data. Once a user's create transaction is broadcast, the parameters for calculating salt can be viewed by anyone viewing the public mempool. This...

When deploying a contract in PermissionlessNodeRegistry.deployNodeELRewardVault(), an attacker can find out in advance the address of the future deployed contract and deploy his own at this address

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The address of the new contract depends solely on the salt parameter, which is calculated from user-provided data. Once a user's create transaction is broadcast, the parameters for calculating salt can be viewed by anyone viewing the public mempool. This...

Custom redemption might revert if old assets were unregistered

Lines of code Vulnerability details quoteCustomRedemption works under the assumption that the maximum size of the erc20sAll should be assetRegistry.size, however there can be cases where an asset was unregistered but still exists in an old basket, making the size of the old basket greater than...

Cloud Security Tops Concerns for Cybersecurity Leaders: EC-Council's Certified CISO Hall of Fame Report 2023

A survey of global cybersecurity leaders through the 2023 Certified CISO Hall of Fame Report commissioned by the EC-Council identified 4 primary areas of grave concern: cloud security, data security, security governance, and lack of cybersecurity talent. EC-Council, the global leader in...

Cloud Security Tops Concerns for Cybersecurity Leaders: EC-Council's Certified CISO Hall of Fame Report 2023

A survey of global cybersecurity leaders through the 2023 Certified CISO Hall of Fame Report commissioned by the EC-Council identified 4 primary areas of grave concern: cloud security, data security, security governance, and lack of cybersecurity talent. EC-Council, the global leader in...

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 安全漏洞

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes is an advanced cluster management platform for Kubernetes from Red Hat, Inc. The platform provides features that offer policy-based governance and extended application lifecycle management. A security vulnerability exists in Red Hat Advanced...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to spoofing when using Web Server Plug-ins

Summary IBM Security Verify Governance uses IBM WebSphere Application Server .The fix includes upgrading IBM WebSphere Application Server with the security patch. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the Remediation/Fixes section Affected Products and Versions Affected...

Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to spoofing when using Web Server Plug-ins

Summary IBM Security Verify Governance uses IBM WebSphere Application Server .The fix includes upgrading IBM WebSphere Application Server with the security patch. Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the Remediation/Fixes section Affected Products and Versions Affected...