CVE-2018-17187

CVE-2018-17187 affects the Apache Qpid Proton-J TLS wrapper. Versions 0.3–0.29.0 lacked hostname verification support, leaving clients that rely on the wrapper with only trusted-certificate verification and exposing them to MITM attacks. The mitigation is to upgrade Proton-J to 0.30.0+ and enable...

CVE-2018-17187

The Apache Qpid Proton-J transport includes an optional wrapper layer to perform TLS, enabled by use of the 'transport.ssl...' methods. Unless a verification mode was explicitly configured, client and server modes previously defaulted as documented to not verifying a peer certificate, with option...

CVE-2018-17187

The Apache Qpid Proton-J transport includes an optional wrapper layer to perform TLS, enabled by use of the 'transport.ssl...' methods. Unless a verification mode was explicitly configured, client and server modes previously defaulted as documented to not verifying a peer certificate, with option...

Man-in-the-middle (MitM) Attacks

Apache Qpid Proton-J transport is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attack. The attack is possible since it passes all the certificates as trusted by default if a verification mode is not specifically set...

GHSA-F5CF-F7PX-XPMH Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.qpid:proton-j

The 1 proton.reactor.Connector, 2 proton.reactor.Container, and 3 proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain...

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.apache.qpid:proton-j

The 1 proton.reactor.Connector, 2 proton.reactor.Container, and 3 proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain...

New strain of Mac malware Proton found after two years

Last week, Kaspersky reported on a new variant of the Mac malware Proton, which they have dubbed Calisto, that has been around for at least two years. Calisto is thoroughly dead at this point, but there are still potential security implications involved with these older infections. Proton was fir...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-0496

Directory traversal issues in the D-Mod extractor in DFArc and DFArc2 as well as in RTsoft's Dink Smallwood HD / ProtonSDK version before 3.14 allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the user's system...

qpid-proton/fuzz-connection-driver: Crash in __msan_memmove.part.53

Project: https://github.com/apache/qpid-proton.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6266408911503360 Project: qpid-proton Fuzzer: libFuzzerqpid-protonfuzz-connection-driver Fuzz target binary: fuzz-connection-driver Job Type: libfuzzermsanqpid-proton Platform Id: linux Crash Typ...

qpid-proton/fuzz-connection-driver: Index-out-of-bounds in pni_inspect_enter

Project: https://github.com/apache/qpid-proton.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6237435934539776 Project: qpid-proton Fuzzer: libFuzzerqpid-protonfuzz-connection-driver Fuzz target binary: fuzz-connection-driver Job Type: libfuzzerubsanqpid-proton Platform Id: linux Crash...

qpid-proton/fuzz-connection-driver: Negative-size-param in transport_consume

Project: https://github.com/apache/qpid-proton.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6301141305393152 Project: qpid-proton Fuzzer: aflqpid-protonfuzz-connection-driver Fuzz target binary: fuzz-connection-driver Job Type: aflasanqpid-proton Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

qpid-proton/fuzz-message-decode: Heap-buffer-overflow in pni_decoder_decode_value

Project: https://github.com/apache/qpid-proton.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=5311329584807936 Project: qpid-proton Fuzzer: aflqpid-protonfuzz-message-decode Fuzz target binary: fuzz-message-decode Job Type: aflasanqpid-proton Platform Id: linux Crash Type:...

proton-egypt.com Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-578920 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| proton-egypt.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...

qpid-proton: reactor sends messages in clear if ssl is requested but not available

The 1 proton.reactor.Connector, 2 proton.reactor.Container, and 3 proton.utils.BlockingConnection classes in Apache Qpid Proton before 0.12.1 improperly use an unencrypted connection for an amqps URI scheme when SSL support is unavailable, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain...

Fake Symantec Blog Caught Spreading Proton macOS Malware

By Waqas In February this year, HackRead published a detailed report on Proton malware This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Symantec Blog Caught Spreading Proton macOS Malware...

Hackers infect Mac users with Proton malware using Elmedia Player

By Waqas The general concept regarding Apple devices is that they are This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers infect Mac users with Proton malware using Elmedia Player...

Mac malware OSX.Proton strikes again

The hackers responsible for the Mac malware OSX.Proton have struck again, this time infecting a copy of the Elmedia Player app that was being distributed from the official Eltima website. At this time, it is still unknown how long their website was providing the hijacked app. Proton was silently...

A new kind of Apple phishing scam

In a recent blog post, Felix Krause revealed a method for phishing Apple ID passwords on iOS that would be quite indistinguishable from a real iOS password request. This got us thinking about the ramifications—how else could this tactic be used in the Apple ecosystem, and what kind of damage coul...

Keychain vulnerability in macOS

On Monday, Patrick Wardle, a respected security researcher at Synack and owner of Objective-See, sent a tweet about a keychain vulnerability he had found in macOS High Sierra. As his tweet showed, it is possible for a malicious app to extract, and then exfiltrate, keychain data from High Sierra,...

ProtonMail Launches Free VPN Service

Encrypted email service ProtonMail announced today it was launching a free VPN service called ProtonVPN. Developers said the move comes following one year of development and four months of beta testing by 10,000 ProtonMail community members. According to Proton Technologies AG, the company behind...