Friday Squid Blogging: New Tool for Grabbing Squid and other Fragile Sea Creatures

Interesting video of a robot grabber that's delicate enough to capture squid and even jellyfish in the ocean. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Security Glitch in IoT Camera Enabled Remote Monitoring

Swann has patched a flaw in its connected cameras that would allow a remote attacker to access their video feeds. A research team, consisting of Andrew Tierney, Chris Wade and Ken Munro from Pen Test Partners, as well as security researchers Alan Woodward, Scott Helme and Vangelis Stykas, develop...

CVE-2018-10635

In Universal Robots Robot Controllers Version CB 3.1, SW Version 3.4.5-100, ports 30001/TCP to 30003/TCP listen for arbitrary URScript code and execute the code. This enables a remote attacker who has access to the ports to remotely execute code that may allow root access to be obtained...

CVE-2018-10635

The CVE-2018-10635 vulnerability affects Universal Robots Robot Controllers CB 3.1 with software version 3.4.5-100, where TCP ports 30001/30002/30003 listen for URScript and can be remotely executed, potentially giving root access. The issue stems from executing arbitrary URScript received on tho...

CVE-2018-10633

Universal Robots Robot Controllers CB 3.1 with SW 3.4.5-100 are affected by CVE-2018-10633 due to hard-coded credentials (CWE-798), which could permit an attacker to reset the controller password. Affected product: CB 3.1, SW 3.4.5-100. Root cause: use of hard-coded credentials. Impact: remote at...

Universal Robots Robot Controllers Hard-Coded Certificate Vulnerability

Universal Robots Robot Controllers is a collaborative robot controller product from Universal Robots, Denmark. A security vulnerability exists in Universal Robots Robot Controllers CB version 3.1 and SW version 3.4.5-100, which stems from the program's use of hard-coded credentials. An attacker...

Universal Robots Robot Controllers Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Universal Robots Robot Controllers is a collaborative robot controller product from Universal Robots, Denmark. A security vulnerability exists in Universal Robots Robot Controllers CB version 3.1 and SW version 3.4.5-100, which originates from the use of TCP ports 3001 through 3003 for listening...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in erlang affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in erlang. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-1000385 DESCRIPTION: Erlang/OTP could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an RSA Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Bleichenbacher...

Security Bulletin: WebSphere MQ is vulnerable to disclosing side channel information via discrepencies between valid and invalid PKCS#1 padding. ROBOT. (CVE-2018-1388)

Summary WebSphere MQ is affected by the ROBOT vulnerability where it may disclose side channel information via discrepencies between valid and invalid PKCS1 padding. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1388 DESCRIPTION: IBM MQ is vulnerable to TLS implementations may disclose side channel...

Man-in-the-Middle (MitM)

robot-js is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle MitM attacks. This is because it downloads binary resources via HTTP, allowing MitM attacks. Also, it may potentially cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the netwo...

CVE-2016-10608

robot-js is a module for native system automation for node.js. robot-js downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker i...

CVE-2016-10608

robot-js is a module for native system automation for node.js. robot-js downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker i...

CVE-2016-10608

CVE-2016-10608 affects the robot-js module used for native system automation in Node.js. The vulnerability arises because robot-js downloads binary resources over HTTP, enabling a MITM attacker in a privileged network position to intercept the response and replace the binary with a malicious one,...

CVE-2016-10608

robot-js is a module for native system automation for node.js. robot-js downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution RCE by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker i...

Session fixation

Symantec IntelligenceCenter 3.3 is vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. A remote attacker, who has captured a pre-recorded SSL session inspected by SSLV, can establish large numbers of crafted SSL connections to the target and obtain the session keys required...

CVE-2017-15533

Symantec SSL Visibility SSLV 3.8.4FC, 3.10 prior to 3.10.4.1, 3.11, and 3.12 prior to 3.12.2.1 are vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. All affected SSLV versions act as weak oracles according the oracle classification used in the ROBOT research paper. A remo...

CVE-2017-18268

Symantec IntelligenceCenter 3.3 is vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. A remote attacker, who has captured a pre-recorded SSL session inspected by SSLV, can establish large numbers of crafted SSL connections to the target and obtain the session keys required...

CVE-2017-15533

Symantec SSL Visibility SSLV 3.8.4FC, 3.10 prior to 3.10.4.1, 3.11, and 3.12 prior to 3.12.2.1 are vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. All affected SSLV versions act as weak oracles according the oracle classification used in the ROBOT research paper. A remo...

Code injection

Symantec SSL Visibility SSLV 3.8.4FC, 3.10 prior to 3.10.4.1, 3.11, and 3.12 prior to 3.12.2.1 are vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. All affected SSLV versions act as weak oracles according the oracle classification used in the ROBOT research paper. A remo...

CVE-2017-15533

Symantec SSL Visibility SSLV 3.8.4FC, 3.10 prior to 3.10.4.1, 3.11, and 3.12 prior to 3.12.2.1 are vulnerable to the Return of the Bleichenbacher Oracle Threat ROBOT attack. All affected SSLV versions act as weak oracles according the oracle classification used in the ROBOT research paper. A remo...