GHSA-FGJJ-5JMR-GH83 Fides JavaScript Injection Vulnerability in Privacy Center URL

Impact The Fides web application allows users to edit consent and privacy notices such as cookie banners. These privacy notices can then be served by other integrated websites, for example in cookie consent banners. One of the editable fields is a privacy policy URL and this input was found to no...

PT-2023-29859

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Fides versions prior to 2.22.1 Description The Fides web application allows users to edit consent and privacy notices, such as cookie banners. A vulnerability exists where a crafted payload in the privacy policy URL can trigger JavaScript...

Google Chrome to Mask User IP Addresses to Protect Privacy

By Waqas The feature is called IP Protection, and it's important to note that it is not a VPN. A VPN encrypts all of a user's traffic, while IP Protection only masks their IP address. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Chrome to Mask User IP Addresses to Protect Priva...

Google Chrome wants to hide your IP address

Google is working out some kinks in the project formerly known as Gnatcatcher, which will now be known under the more descriptive name “IP Protection.” Which means that Chrome is reintroducing a proposal to hide users IP addresses, to make cross-site tracking more difficult. An Internet Protocol ...

BIT-2023-44391

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. User summaries are accessible for anonymous users even when hideuserprofilesfrompublic is enabled. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 version of Discourse. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no know...

More helpful resources for users of all skill levels to help you Take a Security Action

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I continue to be saddened by all the conflict in Israel and Gaza thats still ongoing. Ill be back with a "normal" newsletter next week, as unfortunately, there doesnt seem to be a peaceful solution coming any time soon. In the meantim...

The benefits of using the new Data Privacy Framework

After the Schrems II ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union, legal cross-border transfers of personal data from the EU to the U.S. became a key issue for U.S. businesses. After years of negotiations with the EU, the EU and U.S. have developed and agreed upon an adequate system for...

Cloud Webinar Series Part 1: Commanding Cloud Strategies

Over the past decade, cloud computing has evolved into a cornerstone of modern business operations. Its flexibility, scalability, and efficiency have reshaped industries and brought unprecedented opportunities. However, this transformation has come with challenges—most notably those associated wi...

Cloud Webinar Series Part 1: Commanding Cloud Strategies

Over the past decade, cloud computing has evolved into a cornerstone of modern business operations. Its flexibility, scalability, and efficiency have reshaped industries and brought unprecedented opportunities. However, this transformation has come with challenges—most notably those associated wi...

Nextcloud: Delete external storage of any user

An external storage vulnerability was discovered that allowed standard users to delete external storage resources from any user account in the application. By modifying a system-generated ID, unauthorized users could remove externally linked storage without special privileges, potentially resulti...

Information disclosure

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Attackers with details specific to a poll in a topic can use the /polls/groupedpollresults endpoint to view the content of options in the poll and the number of votes for groups of poll participants. This impacts private polls where t...

CVE-2023-44394 Disclosure of project names to unauthorized users in MantisBT

MantisBT is an open source bug tracker. Due to insufficient access-level checks on the Wiki redirection page, any user can reveal private Projects' names, by accessing wiki.php with sequentially incremented IDs. This issue has been addressed in commit 65c44883f which has been included in release...

CVE-2023-5561

Summary of CVE-2023-5561 findings : WordPress Core is vulnerable to a Sensitive Information Exposure via the REST User endpoint. Affected range: WordPress 4.7.0 through 6.3.1. The issue allows unauthenticated attackers to discern the email addresses of users who have published posts, by querying ...

The vulnerability of the Privacy Preferences component in macOS operating systems allows a violator to circumvent privacy settings.

The vulnerability of the Privacy Preferences component in macOS operating systems relates to the tracking of symbolic links. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a hacker to circumvent privacy settings...

ChatGPT at work: how chatbots help employees, but threaten business

Workhorse Only a few months ago, ChatGPT and other chatbots based on large language models LLMs were still a novelty. Users enjoyed using them to compose poems and lyrics in the style of famous artists which left Nick Cave, for example, decidedly unimpressed, researchers debated blowing up data...

CVE-2023-41881

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. When a collaboration is deleted, the linked resources such as tasks from that collaboration should be deleted. This is partly to manage data properly, but also to prevent a potential but unlikely side-effect that affects versions...

CVE-2023-41882

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. The endpoint /api/collaboration/id/task is used to collect all tasks from a certain collaboration. To get such tasks, a user should have permission to view the collaboration and to view the tasks in it. However, prior to version...

CVE-2023-28635

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. Prior to version 4.0.0, malicious users may try to get access to resources they are not allowed to see, by creating resources with integers as names. One example where this is a risk, is when users define which users are allowed to...

PYSEC-2023-198

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. Prior to version 4.0.0, malicious users may try to get access to resources they are not allowed to see, by creating resources with integers as names. One example where this is a risk, is when users define which users are allowed to...

PYSEC-2023-200

vantage6 is privacy preserving federated learning infrastructure. When a collaboration is deleted, the linked resources such as tasks from that collaboration should be deleted. This is partly to manage data properly, but also to prevent a potential but unlikely side-effect that affects versions...