High-Severity Windows UAC Flaw Enables Privilege Escalation

Researchers disclosed details of a high-severity Microsoft Windows vulnerability that could give attackers elevated privileges – ultimately allowing them to install programs, and view, change or delete data. The bug stems from User Account Control UAC, a security feature of Windows within Secure...

X (Formerly Twitter): Creating malformed URLs via new line character in-between two URLs leads to misrepresented hyperlinks in Tweets/DMs

Summary When composing a tweet or a direct message it is possible to use a new line character %0d to seperate two URLs within the actual hyperlinking process, but not the URL displaying process. The new line character acts as an invisible character that disrupts the actual hyperlinking process,...

Phish Uses Google's URL Decoding to Swim Past Defenses

A phishing campaign that takes advantage of Google’s ability to decode non-ASCII URL data on the fly is making the rounds – looking to fool the unsavvy by effectively hiding the website address of the campaign’s phishing page. The campaign makes use of what’s called percentage-based URL encoding ...

PortSwigger Web Security: Clicking "http://burp" hyperlink on FireFox CA Installation guide redirects to "burp.com" (unclaimed website).

Executive Summary --------------------------------------------------- I was in the process of installing Burp suite community edition on my recent machine where I believe I stumbled across a potential open redirect issue on the CA certificate installation website. This is a security concern due t...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0158)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has thunderbird packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - pngimagefree in png.c in libpng 1.6.36 has a use- after-free because pngimagefreefunction is called under pngsafeexecute. CVE-2019-7317 - If a...

NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2019-0159)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has firefox packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - A possible vulnerability exists where type confusion can occur when manipulating JavaScript objects in object groups, allowing for the bypassing of...

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisories (MFSA2019-16, MFSA2019-16) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

CVE-2019-11700

A hyperlink using the res: protocol can be used to open local files at a known location in Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

CVE-2019-11702

A hyperlink using protocols associated with Internet Explorer, such as IE.HTTP:, can be used to open local files at a known location with Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This...

CVE-2019-11698

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11698

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

Open redirect

A hyperlink using the res: protocol can be used to open local files at a known location in Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

CVE-2019-11702

A hyperlink using protocols associated with Internet Explorer, such as IE.HTTP:, can be used to open local files at a known location with Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This...

CVE-2019-11700

A hyperlink using the res: protocol can be used to open local files at a known location in Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

Cross site scripting

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

CVE-2019-11698

CVE-2019-11698 concerns theft of browser history via drag-and-drop of crafted hyperlinks to bookmarks that are dragged into web content. Public documents confirm affected products and versions: Thunderbird < 60.7, Firefox < 67, and Firefox ESR

CVE-2019-11698

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

CVE-2019-11698

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

CVE-2019-11698

If a crafted hyperlink is dragged and dropped to the bookmark bar or sidebar and the resulting bookmark is subsequently dragged and dropped into the web content area, an arbitrary query of a user's browser history can be run and transmitted to the content page via drop event data. This allows for...

CVE-2019-11700

A hyperlink using the res: protocol can be used to open local files at a known location in Internet Explorer if a user approves execution when prompted. Note: this issue only occurs on Windows. Other operating systems are unaffected.. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...