Vulnerability Management news and publications #2

Hello everyone! This is the second episode of Vulnerability Management news and publications. In fact, this is a collection of my posts from the avleonovcom and avleonovrus telegram channels. Therefore, if you want to read them earlier, subscribe to these channels. The main idea of ​​this episode...

Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerability Affecting ASA and Firepower Solutions

Cisco on Wednesday released patches to contain multiple flaws in its software that could be abused to leak sensitive information on susceptible appliances. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2022-20866 CVSS score: 7.4, has been described as a "logic error" when handling RSA keys on devices...

Rapid7 Discovered Vulnerabilities in Cisco ASA, ASDM, and FirePOWER Services Software

Rapid7 discovered vulnerabilities and “non-security” issues affecting Cisco Adaptive Security Software ASA, Adaptive Security Device Manager ASDM, and FirePOWER Services Software for ASA. Rapid7 initially reported the issues to Cisco in separate disclosures in February and March 2022. Rapid7 and...

OCSF: Working Together to Standardize Data

Teams spend a lot of time normalizing data before any analysis, investigation, or response can begin. It’s an unacceptable burden for you. And its days are finally numbered. Rapid7 and other security vendors are collaborating on an Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework OCSF, an open standard for bo...

How One Engineer Upskilled Into a Salesforce Engineering Role at Rapid7

At Rapid7, we believe the growth and development of our people enables us to better serve customers who depend on us. When our Engineering team was searching for candidates to help with our Salesforce ecosystem, John Millar demonstrated many of our core values – most importantly, the appetite to...

Zimbra UnRAR Path Traversal

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'UnRAR Path Traversal in Zimbra CVE-2022-30333', 'Description' = %q This module creates a RAR file that can be emailed to a Zimbra server to explo...

What We're Looking Forward to at Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSidesLV 2022

The week of Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides is highly anticipated annual tradition for the cybersecurity community, a weeklong chance for security pros from all corners of the industry to meet in Las Vegas to talk shop and share what they've spent the last 12 months working on. But like many belov...

[Security Nation] Curt Barnard on Defaultinator (Black Hat Arsenal Preview)

!\Security Nation\ Curt Barnard on Defaultinator \Black Hat Arsenal Preview\https://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/08/securitynationlogo.jpg In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with Curt Barnard, Principal Security Researcher at Rapid7, about a new tool he’ll be presenting a...

Primary Arms PII Disclosure via IDOR (FIXED)

Update August 2, 2022: This issue was resolved by Primary Arms the same day Rapid7 published this report, and the IDOR vulnerability appears to be no longer exploitable. The Primary Arms website, a popular e-commerce site dealing in firearms and firearms-related merchandise, suffers from an...

CISA Warns of Atlassian Confluence Hard-Coded Credential Bug Exploited in Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added the recently disclosed Atlassian security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26138, concerns the use of hard-coded...

[VIDEO] An Inside Look at AWS re:Inforce 2022 From the Rapid7 Team

!\VIDEO\ An Inside Look at AWS re:Inforce 2022 From the Rapid7 Teamhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2022/07/aws-experience-video.jpg The summer of conferences rolls on for the cybersecurity and tech community — and for us, the excitement of being able to gather in person after two-plus year...

Active Exploitation of Atlassian’s Questions for Confluence App CVE-2022-26138

Exploitation is underway for one of the trio of critical Atlassian vulnerabilities that were published last week affecting several the company’s on-premises products. Atlassian has been a focus for attackers, as it was less than two months ago that we observed exploitation of CVE-2022-26134 in...

Rapid7 at AWS re:Inforce: 2 Big Announcements

This year's AWS re:Inforce conference in Boston has been jam-packed with thrilling speakers, deep insights on all things cloud, and some much-needed in-person collaboration from all walks of the technology community. It also coincides with some exciting announcements from AWS — and we're honored ...

ISO 27002 Emphasizes Need For Threat Intelligence

With employees reluctant to return to the office following the COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of a well-defined network perimeter has become a thing of the past for many organizations. Attack surfaces continue to expand, and as a result, threat intelligence has taken on even greater importance...

What We’re Looking Forward to at AWS re:Inforce

AWS re:Inforce 2022 starts tomorrow — Tuesday, July 26th — and we couldn't be more excited to gather with the tech, cloud, and security communities in our home city of Boston. Here's a sneak peek of the highlights to come at re:Inforce and what we're looking forward to the most this Tuesday and...

Deploying a SOAR Tool Doesn’t Have to Be Hard: I’ve Done It Twice

As the senior information security engineer at Brooks, an international running shoe and apparel company, I can appreciate the challenge of launching a security orchestration, automation, and response SOAR tool for the first time. I’ve done it at two different companies, so I’ll share some lesson...

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (More Data): What Security Pros Are Saying

Eight in 10 organizations collect, process, and analyze security operations data from more than 10 sources, ESG identified in a new ebook SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR, sponsored by Rapid7. Security professionals believe that the most important sources are endpoint security data 24%, thre...

CVE-2022-30526 (Fixed): Zyxel Firewall Local Privilege Escalation

Rapid7 discovered a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Zyxel firewalls. The vulnerability allows a low privileged user, such as nobody, to escalate to root on affected firewalls. To exploit this vulnerability, a remote attacker must first establish shell access on the firewall, fo...

Deploy tCell More Easily With the New AWS AMI Agent

Rapid7's tCell is a powerful tool that allows you to monitor risk and protect web applications and APIs in real time. Great! It's a fundamental part of our push to make web application security as strong and comprehensive as it needs to be in an age when web application attacks account for roughl...

Creating an Exceptional Workplace: Building and Expansion in a Post-COVID World

Since its launch in 2011, Rapid7 UK has been on a mission to build a strong footprint in the region. Today, the company is celebrating the opening of its newly expanded and designed Reading office, located in the Thames Valley District at Forbury Place. This new location was selected to reflect...