Threatpost News Wrap, August 18, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring discuss this week’s security news, including recent abuse of Google Chrome extensions for fraud, a close look at Adobe’s decision to end of life Flash Player, and a backdoor discovered in NetSarang server management software’s update mechanism. Download: Threatpost News...

Attackers Backdoor NetSarang Software Update Mechanism

Attackers infiltrated the update mechanism for a popular server management software package as recently as last month and modified it to include a backdoor. NetSarang, which has headquarters in South Korea and the United States, has removed the backdoored update, but not before it was activated o...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center perfInsListServer Expression Language Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Intelligent Management Center. Although authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability, the existing authentication mechanism can be bypassed. The specific flaw...

Cerber ransomware delivered in format of a different order of Magnitude

As a follow up to our study into the Magnitude exploit kit and its gate which we profiled in a previous blog post, we take a look at an interesting technique used to distribute the Cerber ransomware. Exploit kits are a very effective means of serving malicious payloads and an important aspect is...

Synology Photo Station 6.7.3-3432 / 6.3-2967 Remote Code Execution

''' Source: https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3356 Vulnerability details The remote code execution is a combination of 4 different vulnerabilities: Upload arbitrary files to the specified directories Log in with a fake authentication mechanism Log in to Photo Station with any identi...

Amazon Linux AMI : tomcat8 (ALAS-2017-862)

Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism : A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error page...

Important: tomcat8

Issue Overview: Security constrained bypass in error page mechanism: A vulnerability was discovered in the error page mechanism in Tomcat's DefaultServlet implementation. A crafted HTTP request could cause undesired side effects, possibly including the removal or replacement of the custom error...

CVE-2017-11135

An issue was discovered in heinekingmedia StashCat through 1.7.5 for Android, through 0.0.80w for Web, and through 0.0.86 for Desktop. The logout mechanism does not check for authorization. Therefore, an attacker only needs to know the device ID. This causes a denial of service. This might be...

CVE-2017-11131

An issue was discovered in heinekingmedia StashCat through 1.7.5 for Android, through 0.0.80w for Web, and through 0.0.86 for Desktop. For authentication, the user password is hashed directly with SHA-512 without a salt or another key-derivation mechanism to enable a secure secret for...

The VMware virtual machine escape patch analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

One, Foreword A virtual machine refers to the installation in the normal host machineOSwithin a fully isolated clientoperating system. Virtual machine escape refers to the breakthrough of the virtual machine limit, with the host machineOSthe interaction of a process, an attacker can through a...

CVE-2017-9498

The Comcast firmware on Motorola MX011ANM firmware version MX011AN2.9p6s1PRODsey and Xfinity XR11-20 Voice Remote devices allows local users to upload arbitrary firmware images to an XR11 by leveraging root access. In other words, there is no protection mechanism involving digital signatures for...

Weblate: DKIM records not present, Email Hijacking is possible.....

Your SPF record is present attachments : spf Which very well shows that you don't want spoofed email to be sent from your domains, but you just forget one thing: DKIM DomainKeys Identified Mail is an important authentication mechanism to help protect both email receivers and email senders from...

tomcat security update

0:7.0.69-12 - Resolves: rhbz1441487 CVE-2017-5648 tomcat: Calls to application listeners did not use the appropriate facade object - Resolves: rhbz1441480 CVE-2017-5647 tomcat: Incorrect handling of pipelined requests when send file was used - Resolves: rhbz1459746 CVE-2017-5664 tomcat: Security...

CVE-2017-11465

The parseryyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service invalid write or read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parsertokaddutf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a...

CVE-2017-11472

The acpinsterminate function in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c in the Linux kernel before 4.12 does not flush the operand cache and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism in the kernel throug...

CVE-2017-11472

CVE-2017-11472 affects the Linux kernel via the acpi_ns_terminate() path in drivers/acpi/acpica/nsutils.c. The flaw does not flush the operand cache, enabling a local user to dump kernel memory and bypass KASLR by crafting an ACPI table, with impact described for kernels before 4.12 (and through ...

CVE-2017-11465

The parseryyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service invalid write or read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parsertokaddutf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a...

Trend Micro Deep Discovery Director vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability information Type: OS command in the special elements improper handling ofCWE-78, use of hard-coded cryptographic keysCWE-321, data authenticity verification is insufficientCWE-345 Impact: code execution Remote exploit: Yes Local exploit: Yes CVE name: CVE-pending-assignment-1,...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - IOCTL 0x120007 (NsiGetParameter) nsiproxy/netio Pool Memory Disclosure

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc / We have discovered that the handler of the 0x120007 IOCTL in nsiproxy.sys \.\Nsi device discloses portions of uninitialized pool memory to user-mode clients, likely due to output structure alignment holes. On our test Windows 7 32-bit...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - IOCTL 0x120007 NsiGetParameter nsiproxynetio Pool Memory Disclosure

Microsoft Windows Kernel - IOCTL 0x120007 NsiGetParameter nsiproxynetio Pool Memory Disclosure / We have discovered that the handler of the 0x120007 IOCTL in nsiproxy.sys \.\Nsi device discloses portions of uninitialized pool memory to user-mode clients, likely due to output structure alignment...