RenderDoc 1.26 Local Privilege Escalation / Remote Code Execution

Qualys Security Advisory LPE and RCE in RenderDoc: CVE-2023-33865, CVE-2023-33864, CVE-2023-33863 ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary CVE-2023-33865, a symlink...

Behind the Screen: Three Vulnerabilities in RenderDoc

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has discovered three vulnerabilities in RenderDoc. This blog will delve into the details of these three newly discovered vulnerabilities found within RenderDocs implementation. As part of our ongoing commitment to safeguard digital assets and strengthen...

TotalCloud Empowered with CloudView Integration

Qualys, a leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, offers Qualys TotalCloud - a unified vulnerability, threat, and posture management solution. This solution simplifies cloud infrastructure security by combining essential components such as Cloud Workload Protection, Clo...

Qualys Gateway Service now available in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Marketplaces

Why are customers moving to the Cloud? Cloud computing adoption has been increasing, with cloud-specific spending expected to grow at more than five times the rate of general IT spending through 2023. Many organizations are working to move their enterprise systems to the cloud, with those migrati...

Exploit for Off-by-one Error in Sudo_Project Sudo

PECVE-CVE-2021-3156 Exploit for Ubuntu 20.04 using CVE-2021-3...

Adopting an Effective and Easy To Implement Zero Trust Architecture

Security professionals employed by a federal agency, supplier, or regulated private sector firm are often challenged by long lists of required cybersecurity rules that can seem endless and unchanging. White House Executive Orders, FedRAMP requirements, CISA Binding Operational Directives, NIST...

New TSA Cybersecurity Emergency Action Rule Impacts Cybersecurity and Compliance

On March 7, 2023, in the wake of President Joe Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy announcement, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration TSA issued a cybersecurity emergency action amendment for certain regulated airport and aircraft operators. The new Action Rule can have significant...

Qualys Launches Inaugural Cyber Risk Summit to Share Expert Insights

Cybersecurity professionals from all over are making their way to RSA’s annual conference this week in search of inspiration and expert advice on bolstering their security postures. But for those who could not disrupt their schedules to make the trip, Qualys is providing IT and security...

Qualys Security Solutions Now Support Alibaba Cloud

Enterprise IT environments are getting exponentially more complex with the booming adoption of cloud computing, upping the ante for InfoSec teams, which must protect these new environments. As the foundation for modern IT innovations that propel digital transformation, public cloud platforms are...

Oracle Patch Tuesday April 2023 Security Update Review

Oracle has released the second quarterly edition of Critical Patch Update, which contains a group of patches for 433 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed this month impact various products. These patches address vulnerabilities in Oracle code and third-party components...

Qualys Security Updates: Cloud Agent for Windows and Mac

As part of our commitment to transparency and keeping customers and the community informed, Qualys is publicly disclosing three CVEs pertaining to the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows and one CVE on the Qualys Cloud Agent for Mac. Qualys has confirmed there is no impact on the Qualys production...

CVE-2023-28140

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library DLL via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with...

CVE-2023-28140

An Executable Hijacking condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.5.3.1. Attackers may load a malicious copy of a Dependency Link Library DLL via a local attack vector instead of the DLL that the application was expecting, when processes are running with...

CVE-2023-28142

A Race Condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions from 3.1.3.34 and before 4.5.3.1. This allows attackers to escalate privileges limited on the local machine during uninstallation of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows. Attackers may gain SYSTEM level privileges on...

CVE-2023-28143

Qualys Cloud Agent for macOS versions 2.5.1-75 before 3.7 installer allows a local escalation of privilege bounded only to the time of installation and only on older macOSX macOS 10.15 and older versions. Attackers may exploit incorrect file permissions to give them ROOT command execution...

CVE-2023-28143

Qualys Cloud Agent for macOS versions 2.5.1-75 before 3.7 installer allows a local escalation of privilege bounded only to the time of installation and only on older macOSX macOS 10.15 and older versions. Attackers may exploit incorrect file permissions to give them ROOT command execution...

CVE-2023-28141

An NTFS Junction condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions before 4.8.0.31. Attackers may write files to arbitrary locations via a local attack vector. This allows attackers to assume the privileges of the process, and they may delete or otherwise on unauthorized...

CVE-2023-28142

A Race Condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions from 3.1.3.34 and before 4.5.3.1. This allows attackers to escalate privileges limited on the local machine during uninstallation of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows. Attackers may gain SYSTEM level privileges on...

Race condition

A Race Condition exists in the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows platform in versions from 3.1.3.34 and before 4.5.3.1. This allows attackers to escalate privileges limited on the local machine during uninstallation of the Qualys Cloud Agent for Windows. Attackers may gain SYSTEM level privileges on...

Privilege escalation

Qualys Cloud Agent for macOS versions 2.5.1-75 before 3.7 installer allows a local escalation of privilege bounded only to the time of installation and only on older macOSX macOS 10.15 and older versions. Attackers may exploit incorrect file permissions to give them ROOT command execution...