CVE-2019-19625: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

SROS 2 0.8.1 which provides the tools that generate and distribute keys for Robot Operating System 2 and uses the underlying security plugins of DDS from ROS 2 leaks node information due to a leaky default configuration as indicated in the policy/defaults/dds/governance.xml document...

A week in security (September 9 – 15)

Last week on the Labs blog, we looked at free VPN offerings, how malware can hinder vital emergency services, and explored how the Heartbleed vulnerability is still causing problems. We also talked about a large FTC settlement involving Google, and how to keep an eye out for leaky AWS buckets...

News Wrap: IoT Radio Telnet Backdoor And 'SimJacker' Active Exploit

Threatpost editors break down the biggest news stories of this week ended Sept. 13, including: Researchers warning that more than one billion mobile users are at risk from a SIM card flaw being currently exploited by threat actors A Telnet backdoor opened more than 1 million Imperial Dabman IoT...

PostgreSQL -- Selectivity estimators bypass row security policies

The PostgreSQL project reports: PostgreSQL maintains statistics for tables by sampling data available in columns; this data is consulted during the query planning process. Prior to this release, a user able to execute SQL queries with permissions to read a given column could craft a leaky operato...

Debian DLA-1661-1 : mumble security update

It has been found that the mumble-server mishandles multiple concurrent requests that are persisted in the database, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon hang or crash via a message flood. With the new security update a rate limiter is added with Leaky-Bucket algorith...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1661-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 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 ifdescription...

T-Mobile Alerts 2.3 Million Customers of Data Breach Tied to Leaky API

Wireless carrier T-Mobile notified its 2.3 million subscribers via text message earlier this week that their personal account information may have been exposed. The warnings accompanied a customer advisory posted to the T-Mobile website alerting all its 77 million customers of the breach. Affecte...

A week in security (July 16 – July 22)

Last week on Labs, we looked at a Magniber expansion, explored open source vulnerabilities, and checked out the boons and drawbacks of smart assistants. We also continued our ad blocking article extravaganza, gave a whistlestop tour of third-party problems, and published our Q2 Cybercrime tactics...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

WordPress Leaky Paywall Plugin <= 4.9.1 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability

A PHP object injection vulnerability was found in WordPress Leaky Paywall Plugin. If there is a cookie set in the processcookierequests function, then it would be unserialized which leads to a PHP object injection. Solution Update the plugin...

Internet Bug Bounty: Bleichenbacher oracle in SSLv2 (CVE-2016-0704)

I'm retroactively submitting CVE-2016-0704, a.k.a. "Leaky Export", which is a Bleichenbacher-style bug that leads to another variant of the Special DROWN attack. I'm submitting on behalf of myself and J. Alex Halderman, as we independently found this bug. This was validated by OpenSSL as...