CVE-2015-9268

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System NSIS before 2.49 has unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll. In other words, there is no protection mechanism in which a wrapper function resolves the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime...

CVE-2015-9267

CVE-2015-9267 affects NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) before 2.49. The vulnerability arises from the use of temporary folder locations, enabling unprivileged local users to overwrite files, which can allow replacing either an installer plugin or the uninstaller with a trojan. In practic...

CVE-2015-9268: Improper Input Validation

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System NSIS before 2.49 has unsafe implicit linking against Version.dll. In other words, there is no protection mechanism in which a wrapper function resolves the dependency at an appropriate time during runtime...

CVE-2015-9267: Improper Privilege Management

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System NSIS before 2.49 uses temporary folder locations that allow unprivileged local users to overwrite files. This allows a local attack in which either a plugin or the uninstaller can be replaced by a Trojan horse program...

RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Monero Miner Via PROPagate Injection Technique

Introduction Through FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence DTI, we observed RIG Exploit Kit EK delivering a dropper that leverages the PROPagate injection technique to inject code that downloads and executes a Monero miner similar activity has been reported by Trend Micro. Apart from leveraging a...

Pbot: evolving adware

The adware PBot PythonBot got its name because its core modules are written in Python. It was more than a year ago that we detected the first member of this family. Since then, we have encountered several modifications of the program, one of which went beyond adware by installing and running a...

US Government Site Was Hosting Ransomware

As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware. Researcher Ankit Anubhav of NewSky Security tweeted the discovery Wednesday, and within hours, the malware link was taken down. It’s...

MGASA-2017-0271 Updated mingw-nsis packages fix security vulnerability

The Nullsoft Scriptable Install System version 2.50 contains a DLL hijacking attack which allows administrative root level access on the target Windows system...

Updated mingw-nsis packages fix security vulnerability

The Nullsoft Scriptable Install System version 2.50 contains a DLL hijacking attack which allows administrative root level access on the target Windows system...

Bitdefender Internet Security NSIS Sections Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within...

Apache Struts 2 Exploits Installing Cerber Ransomware

Attackers are attempting to exploit the recent Apache Struts vulnerability on Windows servers and the payload is a variant of the Cerber ransomware. The SANS Internet Storm Center on Thursday said it has seen numerous attempts during the past month to exploit the vulnerability in this way. The fl...

Locky, Cerber Ransomware Skilled at Avoiding Detection

The latest versions of Cerber and Locky ransomware have been, since mid-January, finding great success in bypassing existing security detection systems through the use of a common infrastructure that allows the malicious code to bury itself inside NSIS installers, and use several layers of...

Ransomware operators are hiding malware deeper in installer packages

Note: Read our latest comprehensive report on ransomware: Ransomware 1H 2017 review: Global outbreaks reinforce the value of security hygiene. We are seeing a wave of new NSIS installers used in ransomware campaigns. These new installers pack significant updates, indicating a collective move by...

Bitdefender Internet Security NSIS Pages Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: mingw-nsis-2.50-1.fc23

NSIS, the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, is a script-driven Windows installation system. This package includes native Fedora binaries of makensis etc. and all plugins...

Fedora Update for mingw-nsis FEDORA-2016-637618fcd4

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...

Fedora 23 : mingw-nsis (2016-637618fcd4)

New upstream version 2.50. - Fixes serious DLL hijacking attack: https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/bugs/1125/ Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as...

AutoIT 3 DLL Hijacking

Hi, You probably heart about the Java issue which affected their installer. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2016-0603-2874360.html However this issue also affects multiple other installers as a security researcher has shown...

NSIS DLL Hijack

Hi @ll, executable uninstallers ° created with Nullsoft Scriptable Install System NSIS, see ; for some of its victims see are vulnerable: 1. They load and execute a rogue/bogus/malicious ShFolder.dll '² and other DLLs like SetupAPI.dll or UXTheme.dll too eventually found in the directory they are...

Code injection

The Inetc plugin for Nullsoft Scriptable Install System NSIS, as used in CERT/CC Failure Observation Engine FOE and other products, does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and possibly execute arbitrary code by sending a craft...