Friday Squid Blogging: Bigfin Squid Captured on Video

"Eerie video captures elusive, alien-like squid gliding in the Gulf of Mexico." As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Abcbot — A New Evolving Wormable Botnet Malware Targeting Linux

Researchers from Qihoo 360's Netlab security team have released details of a new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation features to infect Linux systems and launch distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against targets. While the earliest...

Like Button Rating < 2.6.38 - Unauthorised Vote Export to Email & IP Addresses Disclosure

The plugin does not have any authorisation and CSRF checks in the likebtnexportvotes AJAX action, which could allow any authenticated user, such as subscriber, to get a list of email and IP addresses of people who liked content from the blog. PoC fetch"http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",...

Like Button Rating < 2.6.38 - Unauthorised Vote Export to Email & IP Addresses Disclosure

The plugin does not have any authorisation and CSRF checks in the likebtnexportvotes AJAX action, which could allow any authenticated user, such as subscriber, to get a list of email and IP addresses of people who liked content from the blog. fetch"http://example.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php",...

WordPress Like Button Rating plugin <= 2.6.37 - Unauthorized Vote Export to Email & IP Addresses Disclosure vulnerability

Unauthorized Vote Export to Email & IP Addresses Disclosure vulnerability discovered by Krzysztof Zając in WordPress Like Button Rating plugin versions = 2.6.37. Solution Update the WordPress Like Button Rating plugin to the latest available version at least 2.6.38...

ALBA-2021:4533 ibus bug fix update

The Intelligent Input Bus IBus is an input method framework for multilingual input in Unix-like operating systems. Bug fix: Previously, in GNOME Wayland desktop in AlmaLinux 8.5, the IBus emoji candidate pop-up was used with IBus UI and the selected candidate could not inserted into the target...

kernel: protection of stack pointer against speculative pointer arithmetic can be bypassed to leak content of kernel memory

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF verification code. By default, accessing the eBPF verifier is only accessible to privileged users with CAPSYSADMIN. This flaw allows a local user who can insert eBPF instructions, to use the eBPF verifier to abuse a spectre-like flaw and infer all syste...

Remote Code Execution (RCE)

Gradle is vulnerable to remote code execution. start scripts generated by the application plugin and the gradlew script are both vulnerable to arbitrary code execution when an attacker is able to change environment variables for the user running the script. This may impact those who use gradlew o...

netty: Information disclosure via the local system temporary directory

In Netty there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an insecure temp file. When netty's multipart decoders are used, a local information disclosure can occur via the local system temporary directory if temporary storing uploads on the disk is enabled. On unix-like systems, the...

Path traversal

It was found that the fix for CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was insufficient. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the directories configured by Alias-like directives. If files outside of these directories are not protected by the usual default...

Apache httpd -- Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution

The Apache http server project reports: critical: Path Traversal and Remote Code Execution in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49 and 2.4.50 incomplete fix of CVE-2021-41773 CVE-2021-42013. It was found that the fix for CVE-2021-41773 in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.50 was insufficient. An attacker could use a...

VMware ESXi Servers Encrypted by Lightning-Fast Python Script

Researchers have discovered a new Python ransomware from an unnamed gang that’s striking ESXi servers and virtual machines VMs with what they called “sniper-like” speed. Sophos said on Tuesday that the ransomware is being used to compromise and encrypt VMs hosted on an ESXi hypervisor in operatio...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in Netty

Summary IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of Netty. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-21290 DESCRIPTION: Netty could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an insecure temp file in Unix-like systems. By sendi...

netty: Information disclosure via the local system temporary directory

In Netty there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an insecure temp file. When netty's multipart decoders are used, a local information disclosure can occur via the local system temporary directory if temporary storing uploads on the disk is enabled. On unix-like systems, the...

Segmentation fault in time

Impact Unix-like operating systems may segfault due to dereferencing a dangling pointer in specific circumstances. This requires an environment variable to be set in a different thread than the affected functions. This may occur without the user's knowledge, notably in a third-party library. The...

netty: Information disclosure via the local system temporary directory

In Netty there is a vulnerability on Unix-like systems involving an insecure temp file. When netty's multipart decoders are used, a local information disclosure can occur via the local system temporary directory if temporary storing uploads on the disk is enabled. On unix-like systems, the...

Fedora: Security Advisory for rust-tui-react (FEDORA-2021-3cf88e44b4)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

India's Koo, a Twitter-like Service, Found Vulnerable to Critical Worm Attacks

Koo, India's homegrown Twitter clone, recently patched a serious security vulnerability that could have been exploited to execute arbitrary JavaScript code against hundreds of thousands of its users, spreading the attack across the platform. The vulnerability involves a stored cross-site scriptin...

5 Themes for Product Security and Fostering Organizational Growth

In this article we would like to review what Raj Umadas, Product Security Manager at Compass, has shared during our recent webinar highlighting recurring themes that have led to impactful collaborations and organizational risk reduction. Product security ProdSec is crucial in the process of growi...

CVE-2021-24460

The getfblikeboxes function in the Popup Like box – Page Plugin WordPress plugin before 3.5.3 did not use whitelist or validate the orderby parameter before using it in SQL statements passed to the getresults DB calls, leading to SQL injection issues in the admin dashboard...