OpenBSD OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247)

Qualys Research Labs discovered a vulnerability in OpenBSD's OpenSMTPD mail server that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands with elevated privileges. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerability and also quickly provided a patch. Proof-of-concept exploits are published i...

OpenBSD OpenSMTPD Privilege Escalation / Code Execution

Qualys Security Advisory LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD CVE-2020-7247 ============================================================================== Contents ============================================================================== Summary Analysis Exploitation Acknowledgments...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.43 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.43 includes updates and new features for Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Web Application Scanning Editable QID Severity – The severity of WAS QIDs can now be changed to better match your organization's internal policies...

OpenSMTPD MAIL FROM Remote Code Execution

This module exploits a command injection in the MAIL FROM field during SMTP interaction with OpenSMTPD to execute a command as the root user. Module Options msf use exploit/unix/smtp/opensmtpd/mailfromrce msf undefinedmailfromrce show actions ...actions... msf undefinedmailfromrce set ACTION msf...

WordPress Database Reset Plugin Vulnerability (CVE-2020-7047, CVE-2020-7048)

A vulnerability recently disclosed by Wordfence and published as CVE-2020-7047 and CVE-2020-7048 allows an attacker to take over vulnerable WordPress-based websites. Functionality in the WP Database Reset plugin introduced the vulnerability, which allows any unauthenticated user to reset any tabl...

Detect Unauthorized Processes Making Changes in Your Environment with Qualys File Integrity Monitoring

With the average cost of a data breach exceeding $3.5 million as per Cost of a Data Breach Report, almost all organizations these days adopt stringent policies in order to safeguard their confidential business and customer information. Strong RBAC-driven systems have certainly made it difficult f...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, January 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Introducing Periscope: Out-of-Band Vulnerability Detection Mechanism in Qualys WAS

Web applications and REST APIs can be susceptible to a certain class of vulnerabilities that can't be detected by a traditional HTTP request-response interaction. These vulnerabilities are challenging to find but provide a way for attackers to target otherwise inaccessible, internal systems. An...

Patch Tuesday, January 2020 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to plug 50 security holes in various flavors of Windows and related software. The patch batch includes a fix for a flaw in Windows 10 and server equivalents of this operating system that prompted an unprecedented public warning from the U.S. National Security...

Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI Spoofing Vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) – How to Detect and Remediate

Update January 31, 2020: Client testing is now available at clienttest.ssllabs.com. Update January 15, 2020: Detection dashboard now available. Today, Microsoft released patch for CVE-2020-0601, aka Curveball, a vulnerability in windows "crypt32.dll" component that could allow attackers to perfor...

Unpatched Citrix Flaw Now Has PoC Exploits

Proof-of-concept PoC exploit code has been released for an unpatched remote-code-execution vulnerability in the Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway products. The vulnerability CVE-2019-19781, which Threatpost reported on in December, already packs a double-punch in terms...

Citrix ADC and Gateway Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781)

Update January 17, 2020: A new detection in Qualys Web Application Scanning was added. See "Detecting with Qualys WAS" below. Citrix released a security advisory CVE-2019-19781 for a remote code execution vulnerability in Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Citrix Gateway products. The...

Securing Databases with Qualys Policy Compliance

Data is the most valuable asset that an organization holds, and the most common target for malicious attackers. According to Forbes, in the first six months of 2019, data breach incidents exposed an astounding 4.1 billion records worldwide. Hackers successfully attacked government agencies as wel...

Top 19+ Vulnerability CVEs in Santa’s Dashboard Tracking

A recent report identified 19+ vulnerabilities that should be mitigated by end of year 2019. These are a range of top vulnerabilities attacked and leveraged by Advance Persistent Threat APT actors from all parts of the world. The list below shows those top 19 vulnerabilities, and it should be no...

OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader CVE-2019-19726. The dlgetenv function fails to reset the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable when set with approximately ARGMAX colons. This can be abused to load libutil.so from an untrusted path, using...

OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'OpenBSD Dynamic Loader chpass Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerability in the OpenBSD ld.so dynamic loader...

Blue is a color we love but can’t Keep!

Recent reports this year revealed nearly 1 million computer systems are still vulnerable and exposed to BlueKeep in the wild. These systems are still easy targets for an unauthenticated attacker or malware to execute code leveraging this patchable vulnerability. Because so many systems are still...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, December 2019

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Qualys FIM Profile Library Updates, December 2019

The library of out-of-the-box profiles in Qualys File Integrity Monitoring FIM, with their preconfigured content, provide a scalable solution to detect and identify critical changes, incidents, and risks resulting from normal as well as malicious events. With the help of these profiles, users can...

Announcing New Customer Support Portal and Unified Search

Qualys is rolling out new unified search and an improved online customer support experience, along with Support content integrated directly into Qualys Community. It's coming in January 2020. These new features are part of our efforts to enable customer success with an integrated community...