Privilege Escalation

Moodle is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. The attacks exist because the permission check for teacher are not properly handled, allowing any authenticated users with teacher role without accessallgroups capability to post any arbitrary groups...

Concrete CMS: Stored XSS in Name field in User Groups/Group Details form

Intro "The Crayons of Madagascar" Type of issue: Core CMS issue Level of severity: Internal Attack Vector Concrete5 version: 8.2.0 RC2 rev. 32c9daf352645d4fafedb7b956e7f2de4e153ab3 Summary There is Stored XSS vulnerability in User Groups-Group Details Name field. This vulnerability might be used ...

Automated posting on Vkontakte public pages using VK API and Python

Vk.com Vkontakte is the most popular social network Russia and Ex-USSR with 430+ million users. Originally it was a Facebook clone. But now, after 10 years of development, these two services are quite different from each other. Traditional advantages of vk.com - huge amount of free music and vide...

AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool: Zeus

Zeus is a powerful tool for AWS EC2 / S3 / CloudTrail / CloudWatch / KMS best hardening practices. It checks security settings according to the profiles the user creates and changes them to recommended settings based on the CIS AWS Benchmark source at request of the user. Identity and Access...

Obfuscation in the Wild: Targeted Attackers Lead the Way in Evasion Techniques

Throughout 2017 we have observed a marked increase in the use of command line evasion and obfuscation by a range of targeted attackers. Cyber espionage groups and financial threat actors continue to adopt the latest cutting-edge application whitelisting bypass techniques and introduce innovative...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: systemd-233-6.fc26

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Fortinet FortiOS 5.2.x / 5.3.x / 5.4.x < 5.4.5 Multiple XSS (FG-IR-17-127)

The version of Fortinet FortiOS running on the remote device is 5.2.x, 5.3.x, or 5.4.x prior to 5.4.4. It is, therefore, affected by multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities : - A cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists when saving configuration revisions due to improper validation...

Today’s File Security is So ’80s, Part 3: Dynamic Peer Groups – 3 Examples from Customer Data

In the first two parts of this series, we discussed why permissions management, the traditional approach to file security, no longer works and introduced a new approach to file security that leverages machine learning to build dynamic peer groups based on how users actually access files. In this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: systemd-233-4.fc26

systemd is a system and service manager that runs as PID 1 and starts the rest of the system. It provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux control groups,...

FortiOS XSS vulnerabilities via User Groups & Config Revision Comments

Two XSS vulnerabilities were reported to us affecting FortiOS that can be exploited to load and run a remote malicious Javascript in a logged in browser...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation cf-release versions prior to v257; UAA release 2.x versions prior to v2.7.4.14, 3.6.x versions prior to v3.6.8, 3.9.x versions prior to v3.9.10, and other versions prior to v3.15.0; and UAA bosh release uaa-release 13.x versions prior to v13.12,...

CVE-2017-4975

An issue was discovered in Pivotal PCF Tile Generator versions prior to 6.0.0. Tiles created by the PCF Tile Generator create a running open security group that overrides security groups set by the operator...

Today’s File Security is So ‘80s, Part 2: Detect Suspicious File Access with Dynamic Peer Groups

In a previous post, we shared three primary reasons why the traditional, static approach to file security no longer works for today’s modern enterprises. Working groups are formed organically and are cross-functional by nature, making a black and white approach to file access control outdated—it...

Security Bypass Via Unauthorised Overriding Security Groups

tile-generator is vulnerable to security bypass via unauthorized overriding of security groups. The vulnerability exists because applyopensecuritygroup is set to true which allows the overriding of security groups set by the operator...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.3.1.OL6 - Update genkey bug 25599697 2.6.32-696.3.1 - netdrv be2net: Fix endian issue in logical link config command Ivan Vecera 1442979 1436527 - scsi lpfc: update for r 11.0.0.6 Maurizio Lombardi 1439636 1429881 - scsi lpfc: The lpfc driver does not issue RFFID and RFTID in the corre...

How to Configure Multiple License Types within a Single XenApp and XenDesktop Site

A XenApp and XenDesktop license specifies 3 things: Product, Edition, and Model. Previously, each XenApp and XenDesktop site could only consume one type of license product and model at a time. The 7.14 release of XenApp and XenDesktop now includes support for multiple license products and models...

Low Risk Threat: DDoS Extortion Letters

Summary Adversaries calling themselves the Lizard Squad have been sending businesses extortion letters, demanding payment in bitcoin to prevent a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS or other attack against their applications. These letters have been sent to businesses across the globe and across...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.32-696.1.1.0.1.el6.OL6 - kernel sched/fair: Initialize throttlecount for new task-groups lazily orabug 25071015 - kernel sched/fair: Do not announce throttled next buddy in dequeuetaskfair orabug 25071015 - kernel sched/fair: Reorder cgroup creation code orabug 25071015 - kernel sched/fair:...

Ad-LDAP-Enum - Active Directory LDAP Enumerator

ad-ldap-enum is a Python script that was developed to discover users and their group memberships from Active Directory. In large Active Directory environments, tools such as NBTEnum were not performing fast enough. By executing LDAP queries against a domain controller, ad-ldap-enum is able to...