Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram

If you think that the media files you receive on your end-to-end encrypted secure messaging apps can not be tampered with, you need to think again. Security researchers at Symantec yesterday demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps, which could...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin

A vulnerability exists where if a user opens a locally saved HTML file, this file can use file: URIs to access other files in the same directory or sub-directories if the names are known or guessed. The Fetch API can then be used to read the contents of any files stored in these directories and...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin

A vulnerability exists where if a user opens a locally saved HTML file, this file can use file: URIs to access other files in the same directory or sub-directories if the names are known or guessed. The Fetch API can then be used to read the contents of any files stored in these directories and...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-12827

Buffer overflow in respjsipmessaging in Digium Asterisk versions 13.21-cert3, 13.27.0, 15.7.2, 16.4.0 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to crash Asterisk by sending a specially crafted SIP MESSAGE message...

CVE-2019-12751

Symantec Messaging Gateway, prior to 10.7.1, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user...

CVE-2019-12751

Symantec Messaging Gateway, prior to 10.7.1, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user...

Privilege escalation

Symantec Messaging Gateway, prior to 10.7.1, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user...

CVE-2019-12751

Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) before version 10.7.1 is affected by a privilege-escalation vulnerability. The issue allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges within the application, as described in vendor advisories and security feeds. Remediation provided by the vendor is to upgrade to SM...

CVE-2019-12751

Symantec Messaging Gateway, prior to 10.7.1, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy treats all files in a directory as having the same-origin

A vulnerability exists where if a user opens a locally saved HTML file, this file can use file: URIs to access other files in the same directory or sub-directories if the names are known or guessed. The Fetch API can then be used to read the contents of any files stored in these directories and...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-22205)

Symantec Messaging Gateway is a suite of spam filters from Symantec USA. The product features anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced content filtering and data leakage protection. A boost vulnerability exists in Symantec Messaging Gateway versions prior to 10.7.1. An attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2019-12751: Undefined Security Weakness

Symantec Messaging Gateway, prior to 10.7.1, may be susceptible to a privilege escalation vulnerability, which is a type of issue whereby an attacker may attempt to compromise the software application to gain elevated access to resources that are normally protected from an application or user...

PT-2019-12920

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Symantec Messaging Gateway versions prior to 10.7.1 Description The issue is related to a privilege escalation, where an attacker may attempt to compromise the software to gain elevated access to protected resources. Recommendations For versio...

Latest FinSpy Modules Lift Data from Secure Messaging Apps

The latest iOS and Android versions of the FinSpy espionage malware have been deployed in the wild, and are capable of collecting a raft of personal information such as contacts, SMS/MMS messages, emails, calendars, GPS location, photos, files in memory, phone call recordings and data – even from...

New FinSpy iOS and Android implants revealed ITW

Updated: 23.07.2019 After publication of this article, we received a letter from a representative of Gamma Group International Ltd. stating that they disposed of all interests in FinFisher FinSpy in 2013. This article has been corrected in accordance with this new information. According to...

Debian DSA-4477-1 : zeromq3 - security update

Fang-Pen Lin discovered a stack-based buffer-overflow flaw in ZeroMQ, a lightweight messaging kernel library. A remote, unauthenticated client connecting to an application using the libzmq library, running with a socket listening with CURVE encryption/authentication enabled, can take advantage of...

How to securely send your personal information

This story originally ran on The Parallax and was updated on July 3, 2019. A few months ago, my parents asked a great security question: How could they securely send their passport numbers to a travel agent? They knew email wasn’t safe on its own. Standard email indeed isn’t safe for sending...

Cisco Enterprise Chat and Email HTTP API Disclosure

The vulnerability of the HTTP API component of the Cisco Enterprise Chat and Email messaging service is related to the lack of protection for sensitive data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to disclose protected information by sending a specially...

CVE-2018-14867

Incorrect access control in the portal messaging system in Odoo Community 9.0 and 10.0 and Odoo Enterprise 9.0 and 10.0 allows remote attackers to post messages on behalf of customers, and to guess document attribute values, via crafted parameters...

CVE-2018-14867

Incorrect access control in the portal messaging system in Odoo Community 9.0 and 10.0 and Odoo Enterprise 9.0 and 10.0 allows remote attackers to post messages on behalf of customers, and to guess document attribute values, via crafted parameters...