CVE-2023-4911: Looney Tunables – Local Privilege Escalation in the glibc’s ld.so

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU C Librarys dynamic loaders processing of the GLIBCTUNABLES environment variable. We have successfully identified and exploited this vulnerability a local privilege escalation that grants full root privileges...

Qualys Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing, 2023. Web app security is critical for every organization, for attacks on this vector caused 25% of breaches, according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. T...

Qualys Is the Outperformer in the New GigaOm Radar Report for Continuous Vulnerability Management

GigaOm has unveiled its third-annual Radar for Continuous Vulnerability Management featuring Qualys. In this Report, GigaOm provides a detailed analysis of the value and progression of vulnerability management VM capabilities to help organizations build the best security and vulnerability...

CVE-2023-4777

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

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An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777 Incorrect Permission Assignment on Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777 Incorrect Permission Assignment on Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier

An incorrect permission check in Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin 1.6.2.6 and earlier allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission while lacking Item/Configure permission on any particular job to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins and to connect to an...

CVE-2023-4777

CVE-2023-4777 affects Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin for Jenkins (versions ≤ 1.6.2.6). The root cause is an incorrect permission check that lets an attacker with global Item/Configure permission, but not per-job Item/Configure, enumerate credential IDs stored in Jenkins and connect to...

PT-2023-30598 · Qualys · Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin versions 1.6.2.6 and earlier Description: An incorrect permission check in the Qualys Container Scanning Connector Plugin allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission, but lacking...

Qualys Top 20 Most Exploited Vulnerabilities

The earlier blog posts showcased an overview of the vulnerability threat landscape that is either remotely exploited or most targeted by attackers. A quick recap – We focused on high-risk vulnerabilities that can be remotely exploited with or without authentication, and with the view on the time ...

Elevate Your Security Posture: Implementing CIS Top 18 Controls Through Qualys Cloud Platform

The Center for Internet Security CIS is a 501c3 nonprofit organization originally formed in October 2000. CIS has created what is considered one of the industry’s “gold standard” security frameworks based on its mission to “help people, businesses, and governments protect themselves against...

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper

August 2023: GitHub PoCs, Vulristics, Qualys First-Party, Tenable ExposureAI, SC Awards and Rapid7, Anglo-Saxon list, MS Patch Tuesday, WinRAR, Juniper. Hello everyone! This month I decided NOT to make an episode completely dedicated to Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Instead, this episode will be an...

Qualys Tackles 2022’s Top Routinely Exploited Cyber Vulnerabilities

A unified front against malicious cyber actors is climactic in the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, a collaboration between leading cybersecurity agencies from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, is a critical guide to...

Risk Fact #2: Weaponized Vulnerabilities Cloud Security Research Risk Fact

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...

Ensuring Compliance with DORA: How Qualys Solutions Can Help

Introduction The Digital Operational Resilience Act DORA is a new regulation implemented by the European Union to ensure the stability and security of the financial sector. Coming into effect in 2022, DORA mandates enhanced cybersecurity and operational resilience standards for financial...

Qualys Expands Cloud Platform for First-Party Application Risk Detection and Remediation

Have you faced the need to identify & respond to open-source package vulnerabilities like log4shell, openSSL, etc, in production from Day Zero? Are you using first-party, homegrown applications and are worried the risk introduced by those applications is not seen or addressed? Qualys new...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs

Microsoft Patch Tuesday July 2023: Vulristics improvements, Office RCE, SFB SmartScreen and Outlook, EoP MSHTML and ERS, other RCEs. Hello everyone! This episode will be about Microsoft Patch Tuesday for July 2023, including vulnerabilities that were added between June and July Patch Tuesdays...

Incorrect permission checks in Qualys Web App Scanning Connector Plugin allow capturing credentials

Qualys Web App Scanning Connector Plugin 2.0.10 and earlier does not correctly perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. This allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission to connect to an attacker-specified URL using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another...

GHSA-8WGF-3MRJ-73X7 Incorrect permission checks in Qualys Web App Scanning Connector Plugin allow capturing credentials

Qualys Web App Scanning Connector Plugin 2.0.10 and earlier does not correctly perform permission checks in several HTTP endpoints. This allows attackers with global Item/Configure permission to connect to an attacker-specified URL using attacker-specified credentials IDs obtained through another...