Watch Out! Researchers Spot New Microsoft Office Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a zero-day flaw in Microsoft Office that could be abused to achieve arbitrary code execution on affected Windows systems. The vulnerability came to light after an independent cybersecurity research team known as naosec uncovered a Word document...

Microsoft Office Word MSDTJS

This module generates a malicious Microsoft Word document that when loaded, will leverage the remote template feature to fetch an HTML document and then use the ms-msdt scheme to execute PowerShell code. Module Options msf use exploit/windows/fileformat/word/msdtjsrce msf undefinedmsdtjsrce show...

MSHTML Flaw Exploited to Attack Russian Dissidents

A spearphishing campaign targeting Russian citizens and government entities that are not aligned with the actions of the Russian government is the latest in numerous threats that have emerged since Russia invaded the Ukraine in February. Researchers from MalwareBytes identified a campaign last we...

New spear phishing campaign targets Russian dissidents

This blog post was authored by Hossein Jazi. -- Updated to clarify the two different campaigns Cobalt Strike and Rat Several threat actors have taken advantage of the war in Ukraine to launch a number of cyber attacks. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team is actively monitoring these threats...

Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Microsoft Word allows attackers to execute remote code or cause a denial-of-service DoS via crafted RTF data...

Microsoft Office Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the parsing of RTF data in Microsoft Office and earlier allows an attacker to perform remote code execution...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

Patchwork APT caught in its own web

Patchwork is an Indian threat actor that has been active since December 2015 and usually targets Pakistan via spear phishing attacks. In its most recent campaign from late November to early December 2021, Patchwork has used malicious RTF files to drop a variant of the BADNEWS Ragnatela Remote...

USN-5202-1 openjdk-8, openjdk-lts vulnerabilities

Varnavas Papaioannou discovered that the FTP client implementation in OpenJDK accepted alternate server IP addresses when connecting with FTP passive mode. An attacker controlling an FTP server that an application connects to could possibly use this to expose sensitive information rudimentary por...

USN-5202-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities

Varnavas Papaioannou discovered that the FTP client implementation in OpenJDK accepted alternate server IP addresses when connecting with FTP passive mode. An attacker controlling an FTP server that an application connects to could possibly use this to expose sensitive information rudimentary por...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

Hackers Increasingly Using RTF Template Injection Technique in Phishing Attacks

Three different state-sponsored threat actors aligned with China, India, and Russia have been observed adopting a new method called RTF aka Rich Text Format template injection as part of their phishing campaigns to deliver malware to targeted systems. "RTF template injection is a novel technique...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:1480-1 Security update for java-11-openjdk

This update for java-11-openjdk fixes the following issues: Update to 11.0.13+8 October 2021 CPU - CVE-2021-35550, bsc1191901: Update the default enabled cipher suites preference - CVE-2021-35565, bsc1191909: com.sun.net.HttpsServer spins on TLS session close - CVE-2021-35556, bsc1191910: Richer...

Security update for java-11-openjdk (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for java-11-openjdk Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3671-1 Rating: important References: 1191901 1191903 1191904 1191906 1191909 1191910 1191911 1191912 1191913 1191914 Cross-References: CVE-2021-35550 CVE-2021-35556 CVE-2021-35559 CVE-2021-35561...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFReader (Swing, 8265580)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package java-11-openjdk version 0:11.0.13.8-alt1_1jpp11

0:11.0.13.8-alt11jpp11 built Nov. 8, 2021 Andrey Cherepanov in task 287838 Oct. 23, 2021 Andrey Cherepanov - New version. - Security fixes: + CVE-2021-35550 Update the default enabled cipher suites preference + CVE-2021-35565 com.sun.net.HttpsServer spins on TLS session close + CVE-2021-35556...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

OpenJDK: Excessive memory allocation in RTFParser (Swing, 8265167)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: Swing. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 7u311, 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...