UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.8.2

Infection Monkey 1.8.2, the open source breach and attack simulation tool was released a yesterday. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. To keep it simple from the last update, this is a small maintenance release. It includes some bug...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.8.0

Infection Monkey 1.8.0 was released a while ago. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a big, exciting release, which enhances the Monkey’s capabilities. The Monkey now maps its actions to the MITRE ATT knowledge base and as...

Malicious Package

Overview spider-monkey is a malicious package. Affected versions of this package were found to be a Malicious Package, as it utilised typosquatting to run Malicious 3rd party scripts. It replaced genuine packages using an and replaced it with - and vice versa Remediation Avoid using spider-monkey...

Cross site scripting vulnerability in ActionView

There is a possible cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in ActionView's JavaScript literal escape helpers. Views that use the j or escapejavascript methods may be susceptible to XSS attacks. Impact There is a possible XSS vulnerability in the j and escapejavascript methods in ActionView. These...

GHSA-65CV-R6X7-79HV Cross site scripting vulnerability in ActionView

There is a possible cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in ActionView's JavaScript literal escape helpers. Views that use the j or escapejavascript methods may be susceptible to XSS attacks. Impact There is a possible XSS vulnerability in the j and escapejavascript methods in ActionView. These...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.7.0

Infection Monkey 1.7.0 was released a while ago. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a big, exciting release, with a ton of new features and improvements and as always, this post will list down the changes for this version. Wh...

CVE-2013-2159

Monkey HTTP Daemon: broken user name authentication...

CVE-2013-2183

Monkey HTTP Daemon has local security bypass...

CVE-2013-2183

Monkey HTTP Daemon has local security bypass...

Security feature bypass

Monkey HTTP Daemon has local security bypass...

CVE-2013-2159

Monkey HTTP Daemon: broken user name authentication...

CVE-2013-2183

Technical details about CVE-2013-2183 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates from vendors and security advisories.

CVE-2013-2183

Monkey HTTP Daemon has local security bypass...

CVE-2013-2159

Monkey HTTP Daemon: broken user name authentication...

CVE-2013-2159

CVE-2013-2159 affects Monkey HTTP Daemon with a broken user name authentication mechanism. The NVD notes a CVSSv2 base score of 7.5 (HIGH) and CVSSv3.1 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Connected records reaffirm the same issue, ...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.6.3

PenTestIT RSS Feed Some days ago, Infection Monkey 1.6.3 was released. The first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a small bugfix release, mostly around integration and packaging. It contains two user facing changes as well. What is...

Path Traversal in Action View

File Content Disclosure in Action View Impact ------ There is a possible file content disclosure vulnerability in Action View. Specially crafted accept headers in combination with calls to render file: can cause arbitrary files on the target server to be rendered, disclosing the file contents. Th...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View Impact ------ Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests. This impacts all Rails applications that render views. All users running an affected...

GHSA-M63J-WH5W-C252 Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View Impact ------ Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests. This impacts all Rails applications that render views. All users running an affected...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

There is a potential denial of service vulnerability in actionview. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2019-5419. Impact ------ Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process...