Explained — What's Up With the WhatsApp 'Backdoor' Story?

What is a backdoor? By definition: "Backdoor is a feature or defect of a computer system that allows surreptitious unauthorized access to data, " either the backdoor is in encryption algorithm, a server or in an implementation, and doesn't matter whether it has previously been used or not...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

CVE-2016-10138

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

CVE-2016-10138

An issue was discovered on BLU Advance 5.0 and BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The com.adups.fota.sysoper app is installed as a system app and cannot be disabled by the user. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute t...

CVE-2016-10125

D-Link DGS-1100 devices with Rev.B firmware 1.01.018 have a hardcoded SSL private key, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof devices by hijacking an HTTPS session...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

arcanist is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks via downloading resources over HTTP. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

react-native-baidu-voice-synthesizer is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. The library downloads binaries via HTTP, potentially causing a remote code execution RCE vulnerability by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or...

Man In The Middle (MitM)

nw is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because the library downloads zipped resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. It may also cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the attacker is on the network or...

Apple macOS 10.12.1/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS Vulnerabilities

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple macOS 10.12.1/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS Credit: Maksymilian Arciemowicz https://cxsecurity.com/ --- 0. Description ---- The latest macOS and iOS have weak OCSP validation process which allow attacker to send OCSP...

USN-3156-1 apt vulnerability

Jann Horn discovered that APT incorrectly handled InRelease files. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages...

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...

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...

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...

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...

IBM WebSphere Application Server 7.0 < 7.0.0.39 Multiple Vulnerabilities (FREAK)

Binary data 9700.prm...

IBM WebSphere Application Server 8.0 < 8.0.0.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities (FREAK)

Binary data 9713.prm...

Apple macOS 10.12.1 / iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL Handshake MitM / DoS

Apple macOS 10.12.1/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS Credit: Maksymilian Arciemowicz https://cxsecurity.com/ URL: https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2016100213 --- 0. Description ---- The latest macOS and iOS have weak OCSP validation process which allow attacker to send OCSP...

Apple Mac OS X 10.12/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc Apple macOS 10.12/iOS 10 SecureTransport SSL handshake OCSP MiTM and DoS --- 0. Description ---- The latest macOS and iOS have weak OCSP validation process which allow attacker to send OCSP requests up to 200k in name of victim during MiTM attack...

AVTECH Devices Multiple Vulnerabilities

AVTECH devices IP camera/NVR/DVR are prone to multiple vulnerabilities. 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 CPE =...