A week in security (March 30 – April 5)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we offered readers tips for safe online shopping now that cybercriminals are ramping up Internet-based attacks, showed the impact that GDPR has around the world, and helped users understand how social media platforms mine their personal data. We also hosted our...

AMA Recap: Top 10 Tips to Secure Your Remote Workforce

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. As organizations around the world transition to remote work en masse, cybersecurity...

Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used to Buy Silence

Investigative report on how commercial bug-bounty programs like HackerOne, Bugcrowd, and SynAck are being used to silence researchers: Used properly, bug bounty platforms connect security researchers with organizations wanting extra scrutiny. In exchange for reporting a security flaw, the...

How Federal Employees Can Protect their Agencies During the Pandemic

It’s no secret that the way the world works has shifted since COVID-19 came on the scene. Operations are going remote and, for many government and federal agencies, this is new territory. This novelty is compounded by the fact that nation-state attacks are—and have been—on the rise for quite some...

Elementor Page Builder < 2.9.6 - Authenticated Safe Mode Privilege Escalation

The Elementor WordPress plugin could allow an authenticated user to enable Safe Mode. This could allow the user to then disable plugins, which could include security plugins, which would weaken the overall security of the site...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2020-20634

Elementor 2.9.5 and below WordPress plugin allows authenticated users to activate its safe mode feature. This can be exploited to disable all security plugins on the blog...

CVE-2020-10969

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.4 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to javax.swing.JEditorPane...

CVE-2020-10968

FasterXML jackson-databind 2.x before 2.9.10.4 mishandles the interaction between serialization gadgets and typing, related to org.aoju.bus.proxy.provider.remoting.RmiProvider aka bus-proxy...

RCE vulnerability in openshift-pipeline

openshift-pipeline 1.0.56 and earlier does not configure its YAML parser to prevent the instantiation of arbitrary types. This results in a remote code execution RCE vulnerability exploitable by users able to provide YAML input files to openshift-pipeline's build step. openshift-pipeline 1.0.57...

PT-2025-31645

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ms-swift version 3.3.0 Description A remote code execution RCE vulnerability exists due to unsafe deserialization in tests/run.py using yaml.load from the PyYAML library versions = 5.3.1. An attacker controlling the YAML configuration file...

RUSTSEC-2020-0005 CBox API allows to de-reference raw pointers without `unsafe` code

CBox and CSemiBox are part of the public API of the cbox crate and they allow to create smart pointers from raw pointers and de-reference them without the need of unsafe code...

macOS cfprefsd Arbitrary File Write Local Privilege Escalation

This module exploits an arbitrary file write in cfprefsd on macOS use exploit/osx/local/cfprefsd/racecondition msf undefinedracecondition show actions ...actions... msf undefinedracecondition set ACTION msf undefinedracecondition show options ...show and set options... msf undefinedracecondition...

safe-tech.ru Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1116884 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3768 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting safe-tech.ru website and...

Sandbox Escape

Overview safe-eval is a Safer version of eval Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Escape. It is possible for an attacker to run an arbitrary command on the host machine. POC by Anirudh Anand for node 12.13.0 const safeEval = require'safe-eval'; const theFunction = function...

@550w-tools/cli (>=0.0.14, <=0.0.16), @550w-tools/core (>=0.0.14, <=0.0.16) +540 more potentially affected by CVE-2020-7710 via safe-eval (>=0.2.0, <=0.4.1)

safe-eval NPM version =0.2.0, =0.0.14, =0.0.14, =0.0.13, =0.0.14, =0.0.15, =1.0.1, =1.0.2, =1.0.3, =1.1.2, =0.1.16-beta.1, =1.0.0-beta.4, =0.3.0-alpha.1, =0.20.0, =2.0.295, =2.0.315 and more Source cves: CVE-2020-7710 Source advisory: SNYK:JS-SAFEEVAL-608076...

PYSEC-2020-203

The safeeval function in Ansible before 1.6.4 does not properly restrict the code subset, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted instructions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4657...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20478

In ruamel.yaml through 0.16.7, the load method allows remote code execution if the application calls this method with an untrusted argument. In other words, this issue affects developers who are unaware of the need to use methods such as safeload in these use cases...

PT-2020-10463 · Ruamel +2 · Ruamel.Yaml +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: ruamel.yaml versions prior to 0.16.8 Description: The issue allows remote code execution when the load method is called with an untrusted argument, affecting developers who do not use safe methods like safe load. Recommendations: For versions...

Security update for chromium, re2 (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for chromium, re2 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0233-1 Rating: important References: 1162833 Cross-References: CVE-2019-18197 CVE-2019-19880 CVE-2019-19923 CVE-2019-19925 CVE-2019-19926 CVE-2020-6381 CVE-2020-6382 CVE-2020-6385 CVE-2020-6387...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: chromium-browser security update

An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for ea...