Update Windows 10 Immediately to Patch a Flaw Discovered by the NSA

After Adobe today releases its first Patch Tuesday updates for 2020, Microsoft has now also published its January security advisories warning billions of users of 49 new vulnerabilities in its various products. What's so special about the latest Patch Tuesday is that one of the updates fixes a...

CVE-2020-6958

An XXE vulnerability in JnlpSupport in Yet Another Java Service Wrapper YAJSW 12.14, as used in NSA Ghidra and other products, allows attackers to exfiltrate data from remote hosts and potentially cause denial-of-service...

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An XXE vulnerability in JnlpSupport in Yet Another Java Service Wrapper YAJSW 12.14, as used in NSA Ghidra and other products, allows attackers to exfiltrate data from remote hosts and potentially cause denial-of-service...

Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI fails to properly validate ECC certificate chains

Overview The Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI fails to properly validate certificates that use Elliptic Curve Cryptography ECC, which may allow an attacker to spoof the validity of certificate chains. Description The Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI, which is provided by Crypt32.dll, fails to validate ECC...

CVE-2020-6958

An XXE vulnerability in JnlpSupport in Yet Another Java Service Wrapper YAJSW 12.14, as used in NSA Ghidra and other products, allows attackers to exfiltrate data from remote hosts and potentially cause denial-of-service...

NSA Releases Cyber Advisory: Managing Risk from Transport Layer Security Inspection

The National Security Agency NSA has released a Cyber Advisory that addresses managing risk from Transport Layer Security Inspection TLSI. This short, informative document defines TLSI a security process that allows incoming traffic to be decrypted, inspected, and re-encrypted, explains some risk...

What Keeps NSA Cybersecurity Boss Anne Neuberger Up at Night

At WIRED25, the NSA's Anne Neuberger talked election security, low-orbit satellites, and weaponized autonomous drones...

NSA and NCSC Release Joint Advisory on Turla Group Activity

The National Security Agency NSA and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre NCSC have released a joint advisory on advanced persistent threat APT group Turla—widely reported to be Russian and also known as Snake, Uroburos, VENEMOUS BEAR, or Waterbug. The advisory provides an update to...

CVE-2019-17665

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking because it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory...

CVE-2019-17664

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser Window Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe...

CVE-2019-17664

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser Window Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe...

CVE-2019-17665

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking because it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory...

Design/Logic Flaw

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser Window Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe...

Directory traversal

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking because it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory...

CVE-2019-17664

NSA Ghidra through 9.0.4 uses a potentially untrusted search path. When executing Ghidra from a given path, the Java process working directory is set to this path. Then, when launching the Python interpreter via the "Ghidra Codebrowser Window Python" option, Ghidra will try to execute the cmd.exe...

CVE-2019-17664

CVE-2019-17664 affects NSA Ghidra up to 9.0.4, where the Java process working directory is set to the user-provided path. When launching the Python interpreter from Ghidra CodeBrowser > Window > Python, Ghidra attempts to execute cmd.exe from that working directory due to a potentially untr...

CVE-2019-17665

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking: it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory, enabling potential arbitrary-code execution when a crafted file is used. Affected product: Ghidra (open-source reverse engineering tool) prior to version 9.0.2. Root cause: loading jansi...

CVE-2019-17665

NSA Ghidra before 9.0.2 is vulnerable to DLL hijacking because it loads jansi.dll from the current working directory...

APT Groups Exploiting Flaws in Unpatched VPNs, Officials Warn

State-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT groups are using flaws in outdated VPN technologies from Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Pulse Secure to carry out cyber attacks on targets in the United States and overseas, warned U.S. and U.K. officials. The National Security Agency NSA issued a...

New Bug Found in NSA’s Ghidra Tool

A medium severity bug reported on Saturday impacts Ghidra, a free, open-source software reverse-engineering tool released by the National Security Agency earlier this year. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise exposed systems, according to a NIST National Vulnerability Databas...