Deep Panda deploys new rootkit “Fire Chili” by exploiting Log4shell in VMware horizon

THREAT LEVEL: Red For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Deep Panda, a Chinese APT group, took advantage of the well-known Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor, rootkit, and steal sensitive data. This threat actor is primarily targeting firms in the...

Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965): details and mitigations

Last week researchers found the critical vulnerability CVE-2022-22965 in Spring – the open source Java framework. Using the vulnerability, an attacker can execute arbitrary code on a remote web server, which makes CVE-2022-22965 a critical threat, given the Spring frameworks popularity. By analog...

Chinese Hackers Target VMware Horizon Servers with Log4Shell to Deploy Rootkit

A Chinese advanced persistent threat tracked as Deep Panda has been observed exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware Horizon servers to deploy a backdoor and a novel rootkit on infected machines with the goal of stealing sensitive data. "The nature of targeting was opportunistic insofar...

RCE Bug in Spring Cloud Could Be the Next Log4Shell, Researchers Warn

NOTE: This post is about the confirmed and patched vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-22963. While the researchers at Sysdig refer to this Spring Cloud bug as “Spring4Shell,” it should be noted that there is some confusion as to what to call it, with another security firm referring to a different,...

Apache Log4j 2.0.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (Web Application URL Parameter, Log4Shell) - Active Check

Apache Log4j is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Apache Log4j 2.0.x Multiple Vulnerabilities (HTTP Web Dirs, Log4Shell) - Active Check

Apache Log4j is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 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...

Infographic: Log4Shell Vulnerability Impact by the Numbers

The full scope of risk presented by the Log4Shell vulnerability is something unprecedented, spanning every type of organization across every industry. Hard to find but easy to exploit, Log4Shell immediately places hundreds of millions of Java-based applications, databases, and devices at risk...

Qualys Study Reveals How Enterprises Responded to Log4Shell

On December 9, 2021, a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting Apache’s Log4j2 library, a Java-based logging utility, was disclosed to the world. This was no small announcement. As the third most used computer language, Java is practically ubiquitous. Its Log4j2 library is extremely popular...

Chinese APT41 Hackers Broke into at Least 6 U.S. State Governments: Mandiant

APT41, the state-sponsored threat actor affiliated with China, breached at least six U.S. state government networks between May 2021 and February 2022 by retooling its attack vectors to take advantage of vulnerable internet-facing web applications. The exploited vulnerabilities included "a zero-d...

Security Bulletin: IBM Maximo Application Suite is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to Apache Log4j (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary Apache log4j 2 library is used by IBM Maximo Application Suite internal components. This bulletin provides remediation for the Apache log4j 2 vulnerability CVE-2021-44228 by applying a new Maximo Application suite fixpack. The fix includes Apache Log4j2 2.15.0. Vulnerability Details CVEID...

Security Bulletin: Apache Log4j Vulnerability Affects IBM Sterling File Gateway (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary IBM Sterling File Gateway is impacted by Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228, through the use of Apache Log4j's JNDI logging feature. Final remediation images published below. As an alternative to the final remediation images, manual mitigation steps are also provided below. Vulnerability Details...

What's New in InsightVM and Nexpose: Q4 2021 in Review

Greetings, fellow security professionals. As we enter into the new year, we wanted to provide a recap of product releases and features on the vulnerability management VM front for Q4 2021. Let's start by talking about the elephant in the room. The end of last year was dominated by Log4Shell, the...

Log4Shell 2 Months Later: Security Strategies for the Internet's New Normal

CVE-2021-44228 rules everything around us — or so it seemed, at least, for those breathless days in December 2021 when the full scope of Log4Shell was starting to take hold and security teams were strapped for time and resources as they scoured their organizations' environments for vulnerable...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

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How InsightAppSec Detects Log4Shell: Your Questions Answered

If you’re reading this, that means you survived the year 2021, so congratulations! For everyone in the software industry, and especially those in cybersecurity, the past 12 months probably felt like 12 rounds in the ring. Remember the Solarwinds attack and the resulting scramble to mitigate suppl...

Dropping Files on a Domain Controller Using CVE-2021-43893

On December 14, 2021, during the Log4Shell chaos, Microsoft published CVE-2021-43893, a remote privilege escalation vulnerability affecting the Windows Encrypted File System EFS. The vulnerability was credited to James Forshaw of Google Project Zero, but perhaps owing to the Log4Shell atmosphere,...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects IBM Spectrum Control (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary A vulnerability in Apache Log4j could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system. This vulnerability may affect IBM Spectrum Control due to its use of Log4j for logging, tracing, alerting, and the local help documentation. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-44228...

Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS for Panorama < 9.0.15 / 9.1.12-h3 / 10.0.8-h8 Multiple RCE (Log4Shell)

The version of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS for Panorama running on the remote host is 9.0.x prior to 9.0.15, 9.1.x prior to 9.1.12-h3, or 10.0.x prior to 10.0.8-h8. It is, therefore, affected by two remote code execution vulnerabilities related to Log4Shell within the ElasticSearch component. These...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Apache Log4j affects Netcool Operation Insight (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary A vulnerability was identified within the Apache Log4j library that is used by Netcool Operation Insight to provide logging functionality. This vulnerability has been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute...

Security Bulletin: Log4Shell Vulnerability affects IBM SPSS Statistics (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary There is a vulnerability in the version of Log4j that is part of IBM SPSS Statistics. IBM SPSS Statistics has addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused b...