Backdoor Found in Firmware of Some Android Devices

Nearly three million Android devices are vulnerable to an attack that could allow a hacker to compromise over-the-air OTA updates to the devices and allow adversaries to remotely execute commands with root privileges. The problem stems from what researchers call an insecure implementation of an O...

Ubiquiti Inc.: Command injection in the process of downloading the latest version of the cloud key firmware through the unifi management software.

In UniFi Cloud Key versions prior to 5.3.12, 5.4.9 and 5.5.2, the firmware is downloaded in a unprotected channel, with allow an attacker in an MitM scenario to interfere with the communication, and possibly modifying the firmware during an update. The versions 5.3.12, 5.4.9 and 5.5.2 fix this...

USN-3124-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Tyson Smith, Jon Coppeard, Jan-Ivar Bruaroey, Jesse Ruderman, Markus Stange, Olli Pettay, Ehsan Akhgari, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, and Randell Jesup discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a special...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3124-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 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...

Post Indexer <= 3.0.6.1 - PHP Object Injection via MitM

The post-indexer WordPress plugin was affected by a PHP Object Injection via MitM security vulnerability...

Ragentek Android OTA update mechanism vulnerable to MITM attack

Overview Ragentek Android software contains an over-the-air update mechanism that communicates over an unencrypted channel, which can allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Description CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check - CVE-2016-6564 Android...

creak - Poison, Reset, Spoof, Redirect MITM Script

Performs some of the most famous MITM attack on target addresses located in a local network. Among these, deny navigation and download capabilities of a target host in the local network performing an ARP poison attack and sending reset TCP packets to every request made to the router. Born as a...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: Using plain git protocol (vulnerable to MITM)

Using plain git protocol git://domain is insecure as the server is not verified MITM attacker can return different content if last commit not checked against known one more information about this issue Protocols to choose from when cloning: https://gist.github.com/grawity/4392747...

Paragon Initiative Enterprises: Incorrect detection of onion URLs

Several places have incorrect code to detect if URL point to .onion domain tor hidden server: The following regexes: 1. ^https://^/:+.onion:?:0-9+ 2. ^https?://^/+.onion which is used in: https://github.com/paragonie/airship/blob/0e9289553cdc538556d362faaee63be6cc534a0c/src/Engine/Hail.phpL223...

Android Proxy Auto Config (PAC) Crash Vulnerability

Android devices can be crashed forcing a halt and then a soft reboot by downloading a large proxy auto config PAC file when adjusting the Android networking settings. This can also be exploited by an MITM attacker that can intercept and replace the PAC file. However, the bug is mitigated by...

Android Proxy Auto Config (PAC) Crash

Original at: https://wwws.nightwatchcybersecurity.com/2016/11/07/crashing-android-devices-with-large-pac-files-cve-2016-6723/ Summary Android devices can be crashed forcing a halt and then a soft reboot by downloading a large proxy auto config PAC file when adjusting the Android networking...

RUSTSEC-2016-0001 SSL/TLS MitM vulnerability due to insecure defaults

All versions of rust-openssl prior to 0.9.0 contained numerous insecure defaults including off-by-default certificate verification and no API to perform hostname verification. Unless configured correctly by a developer, these defaults could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...

SSL/TLS MitM vulnerability due to insecure defaults

All versions of rust-openssl prior to 0.9.0 contained numerous insecure defaults including off-by-default certificate verification and no API to perform hostname verification. Unless configured correctly by a developer, these defaults could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...

Blockchain Based DNS: dnschain

Blockchain Based DNS DNSChain makes it possible to be certain that you’re communicating with who you want to communicate with, and connecting to the sites that you want to connect to, without anyone secretly listening in on your conversations in between, DNSChain provides security properties that...

Update request kernel-linus-4.4.26-1 fixes security issues

This update is based on the upstream 4.4.26 kernel and fixes at least these security issues: An issue with ASN.1 DER decoder was reported that could lead to memory corruptions, possible privilege escalation, or complete local denial of service via x509 certificate DER files CVE-2016-0758...

Command injection

git-fastclone before 1.0.1 permits arbitrary shell command execution from .gitmodules. If an attacker can instruct a user to run a recursive clone from a repository they control, they can get a client to run an arbitrary shell command. Alternately, if an attacker can MITM an unencrypted git clone...

CVE-2015-8968

CVE-2015-8968 affects git-fastclone prior to 1.0.1, enabling arbitrary shell command execution via .gitmodules when cloning recursively or updating submodules. The exploit occurs through ext helper URLs (git-remote-ext) embedded in submodules, allowing command execution either over cloned repos o...

CVE-2015-8968

git-fastclone before 1.0.1 permits arbitrary shell command execution from .gitmodules. If an attacker can instruct a user to run a recursive clone from a repository they control, they can get a client to run an arbitrary shell command. Alternately, if an attacker can MITM an unencrypted git clone...

This Code Injection Technique can Potentially Attack All Versions of Windows

Guess what? If you own a Windows PC, which is fully-patched, attackers can still hack your computer. Isn't that scary? Well, definitely for most of you. Security researchers have discovered a new technique that could allow attackers to inject malicious code on every version of Microsoft's Windows...

USN-3112-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Catalin Dumitru discovered that URLs of resources loaded after a navigation start could be leaked to the following page via the Resource Timing API. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensiti...