CVE-2017-12871

The aesEncrypt method in lib/SimpleSAML/Utils/Crypto.php in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.x through 1.14.11 makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the encryption protection mechanism by leveraging use of the first 16 bytes of the secret key as the initialization vector IV...

Authentication flaw

A man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability in the non-certificate-based authentication mechanism in McAfee LiveSafe MLS versions prior to 16.0.3 allows network attackers to modify the Windows registry value associated with the McAfee update via the HTTP backend-response...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Security component of Kohana before 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by bypassing the stripimagetags protection mechanism in system/classes/Kohana/Security.php...

CVE-2016-10510

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Security component of Kohana before 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by bypassing the stripimagetags protection mechanism in system/classes/Kohana/Security.php...

CVE-2016-10510

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Security component of Kohana before 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by bypassing the stripimagetags protection mechanism in system/classes/Kohana/Security.php...

CVE-2016-10510

Kohana Security component (PHP framework) before 3.3.6 is vulnerable to Cross‑Site Scripting (XSS) via bypass of strip_image_tags in system/classes/Kohana/Security.php. Exploitation could allow remote script/HTML injection. Public advisories/citations confirm the issue and its fix: Kohana 3.3.6 r...

CVE-2016-10510

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Security component of Kohana before 3.3.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by bypassing the stripimagetags protection mechanism in system/classes/Kohana/Security.php...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Googlemaps plugin before 3.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism...

CVE-2013-7432

The Googlemaps plugin before 3.1 for Joomla! allows remote attackers to bypass an intended protection mechanism...

Design/Logic Flaw

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets...

CVE-2017-6594

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets...

Design/Logic Flaw

The acpidscreateoperands function in drivers/acpi/acpica/dsutils.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.9 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 kerne...

CVE-2017-13694

The acpipscompletefinalop function in drivers/acpi/acpica/psobject.c in the Linux kernel through 4.12.9 does not flush the node and nodeext caches and causes a kernel stack dump, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory and bypass the KASLR protection mechanism ...

Updated perltidy packages fix security vulnerability

perltidy relies on the current working directory for certain output files and does not have a symlink-attack protection mechanism, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files by creating a symlink CVE-2016-10374...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

dnsdist version 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in authentication mechanism for REST API potentially allowing CSRF attack...

CVE-2017-7557

dnsdist version 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in authentication mechanism for REST API potentially allowing CSRF attack...

CVE-2017-7557

dnsdist version 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in authentication mechanism for REST API potentially allowing CSRF attack...

Directory traversal

UnRAR before 5.5.7 allows remote attackers to bypass a directory-traversal protection mechanism via vectors involving a symlink to the . directory, a symlink to the .. directory, and a regular file...

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...