Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Attempts to Bypass Whitelisting by Leveraging MS Office Document Macros, MSBuild, Certutil

Carbon Black continues to monitor and track evolving techniques that attackers leverage. Over the last several years, there has been an increase in attackers leveraging open source frameworks and proof of concept POC techniques that are released publically by researchers. A document was recently...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: unzip-6.0-37.fc27

The unzip utility is used to list, test, or extract files from a zip archive. Zip archives are commonly found on MS-DOS systems. The zip utility, included in the zip package, creates zip archives. Zip and unzip are both compatible with archives created by PKWARER's PKZIP for MS-DOS, but the...

CVE-2018-5469: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

An Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts issue was discovered in Belden Hirschmann RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic Platform Switches. An improper restriction of excessive authentication vulnerability in the web interface has been identified,...

CVE-2018-5461: Inadequate Encryption Strength

An Inadequate Encryption Strength issue was discovered in Belden Hirschmann RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic Platform Switches. An inadequate encryption strength vulnerability in the web interface has been identified, which may allow an attacker to obtain sensiti...

CVE-2018-5465: Session Fixation

A Session Fixation issue was discovered in Belden Hirschmann RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic Platform Switches. A session fixation vulnerability in the web interface has been identified, which may allow an attacker to hijack web sessions...

CVE-2018-5471: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

A Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information issue was discovered in Belden Hirschmann RS, RSR, RSB, MACH100, MACH1000, MACH4000, MS, and OCTOPUS Classic Platform Switches. A cleartext transmission of sensitive information vulnerability in the web interface has been identified, which may all...

vDisk Lost Properties in PVS Console

vDisk lost properties in PVS consoleafter move vDisk to individual file server with MS DFS enabled,vDisk is shown as No server and filesize can not be identified...

MS Word Maybe Used for Cryptojacking Attacks

By David Balaban Cryptojacking JavaScript can be launched in Word documents - New This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MS Word Maybe Used for Cryptojacking Attacks...

A week in security (February 19 – February 25)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we gave readers a primer on encryption, took a stab at that Deepfakes tool Internet users seem to be interested in, and started a new series that talks about GDPR. We also looked at a drive-by download campaign that starts in booby-trapped Chinese websites that dro...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1037-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Tracking changes in CERT bulletins and Nessus plugins using Vulners Time Machine

If you use Vulners.com vulnerability search engine, you probably know that it has a real "Time Machine". Each time Vulners sees some changes on a source page it creates a new version of security object. And you can see the full history of changes in a nice GUI: In most cases, the vendor just...

MS-ISAC Releases Advisory on PHP Vulnerabilities

The Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC has released an advisory on multiple Hypertext Preprocessor PHP vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review...

ms-coc.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-484341 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ms-coc.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure based on...

Automatize Obfuscation and Generation of MS Office Documents: macro_pack

The macropack is a tool used to automatize obfuscation and generation of MS Office documents for pentest, demo, and social engineering assessments. The goal of macropack is to simplify antimalware solutions bypass and automatize the process from vba generation to final Office document generation...

MS-Word Payload Delivery: Macro Creator

Invoke-MacroCreator is a powershell Cmdlet that allows for the creation of an MS-Word document embedding a VBA macro with various payload delivery and execution capabilities. Description Basically the script supports three types of payload that you MUST specify using the -t argument: 1. shellcode...

Processing .docx and .xlsx files with Python

MS Office documents are probably one of the most inconvenient and poorly formalized data sources. It's much better to keep all the data in specialized databases or at least in wiki. But in real life, MS Office documents are in active use in nearly every organization. Simply because it is a flexib...

ms-gmbh.de XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-441184 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ms-gmbh.de Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat Sheet...

MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware

By Waqas Italian security researcher Lino Antonio Buono discovered a security flaw This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MS Office’ Default Function Can Be Used to Create Self-Replicating Malware...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: tnef-1.4.15-1.fc25

This application provides a way to unpack Microsoft MS-TNEF MIME attachment s. It operates like tar in order to unpack files of type "application/ms-tnef", which may have been placed into the MS-TNEF attachment instead of being attached separately. Such files may have attachment names similar to...

192.168.0.172 (4.6.1), 352-wascally (>=0.2.4, <=0.2.5) +5442 more potentially affected by CVE-2015-8315 via ms (>=0.1.0, <=0.7.0)

ms NPM version =0.1.0, =0.2.4, =1.0.0, =0.2.0, =0.0.1, =0.0.8, =1.8.0, =0.1.0, =1.0.0, =0.9.0, =1.4.0, =1.0.1, =3.1.2 - @asbjornenge/microbe 1.0.1 - @auser/metalsmith-watch 1.0.4 and more Source cves: CVE-2015-8315 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-3FX5-FWVR-XRJG...