CVE-2017-9804

In Apache Struts 2.3.7 through 2.3.33 and 2.5 through 2.5.12, if an application allows entering a URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL. NOTE: this...

zookeeper: Incorrect input validation with wchp/wchc four letter words

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in ZooKeeper which allows an attacker to dramatically increase CPU utilization by abusing "wchp/wchc" commands, leading to the server being unable to serve legitimate requests...

Nextcloud: WebDAV Empty Property search leads to full CPU usage

Tested with the following versions: - owncloud:10.0 - nextcloud:12.0 with mariadb in place. A PROFIND nextcloud/remote.php/webdav/ with xml as body causes full CPU utilization of one Apache worker process. in curl form: curl -i --user testuser:testpass -X PROPFIND -d ''...

Apache Struts URLValidator DoS Vulnerability (S2-047) - Linux

Apache Struts is prone to a denial of service DoS vulnerability. This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Struts-core is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. A malicious user can pass a URL string to the application to overload the URL validation process, preventing other strings from being validated...

CVE-2017-7672

If an application allows enter an URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12...

CVE-2017-7672

If an application allows enter an URL in a form field and built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL. Solution is to upgrade to Apache Struts version 2.5.12...

WakaTime: No rate limit when creating new goals [https://wakatime.com/goals]

Hi there, I was testing and found out that there's no rate limit on goals section https://wakatime.com/goals that means you can create multiple goals in a sec, which would lead to server crash since there's no limit per request that a user can make. I made at least 100 request, and still got 200 ...

Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism

This article argues that Britain's counterterrorism problem isn't lack of data, it's lack of analysis...

Denial Of Service (DoS) Via URLValidator

Apache struts2 is vulnerable to denial-of-service DoS attacks. It does not trim when validating input URL in form files. If built-in URLValidator is used, it is possible for attackers to prepare a special URL which will be used to overload server process when performing validation of the URL,...

BlackNurse Low-Volume DoS Attack Targets Firewalls

A type of denial of service attack relevant in the 1990s has resurfaced with surprising potency against modern-day firewalls. Dubbed a BlackNurse attack, the technique leverages a low-volume Internet Control Message Protocol ICMP -based attack on vulnerable firewalls made by Cisco, Palo Alto,...

HackerOne: Denial of service in report view.

Hello Team! First of all thank you for acknowledging my feature request, I know it will help a lot of users. Description: ========== I just wanted to report a potential vulnerability on the report view functionality. For obvious reasons I'm using my sandboxed team on an alternate account to test...

Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router UDP Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Cisco ASR1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers provide a WAN edge solution that integrates information, communication, collaboration, and commerce. A security vulnerability in the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router's processing of UDP messages allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability...

Workbox Plugin loads full HTML of JIRA comment, leads to GC loop of death on large comment

To reproduce: start Confluence with GC logging enabled optional, but helps Link Confluence and JIRA create an issue in JIRA watch it add a large comment to the JIRA issue, e.g. paste a 7.7MB log file between \code\ tags open the workbox in Confluence optional: in network tab of web developer tool...

Polish Planes Grounded After Alleged Airline Hack

Roughly 1,400 passengers were temporarily stranded at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport over the weekend after hackers were purportedly able to modify an entire airline’s flight plans via a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. On Sunday someone was able to infiltrate the computer system of t...

Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server SDP Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server is a video conferencing solution that integrates h.323 and SIP. Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server handles SDP with a security vulnerability that allows an attacker to send specially crafted SDP parameter negotiation requests over a SIP...

Debian DSA-3216-1 : tor - security update

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Tor, a connection-based low-latency anonymous communication system : - CVE-2015-2928 'disgleirio' discovered that a malicious client could trigger an assertion failure in a Tor instance providing a hidden service, thus rendering the service...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3216-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

Lizard Squad vs Anonymous — 'PlayStation, Xbox and Tor Network' Attacks

It was the sad Christmas day for gamers all around the world!! A lot of people get new PlayStations and Xboxes on Christmas, but this Christmas they bought the game, popped it into the console for online gaming, and what they found? Oh Crap! I can't log on. It was the notorious hacker group "Liza...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3638

The busconnectionscheckreply function in config-parser.c in D-Bus before 1.6.24 and 1.8.x before 1.8.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a large number of method calls...