July 25, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Henry Ford” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 25, 2017 - Headlines UK gov wants teens to practice cybersecurity in their...

IBM BigFix Security Compliance Analytics Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

IBM BigFix Security Compliance Analytics is a suite of systems management software from IBM in the United States. The software provides remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, network access protection and other functions. A cross-site scripting...

A Growing Symphony of Security Analytics Tools Needs Careful Orchestration

Security analytics tools available to companies are increasing rapidly. However, cyber incident and vulnerability prevention, detection, response, and recovery times remain significant challenges as the types of attacks and attack vectors increase. Newer cyber analytics using machine learning are...

SA150: NSS Vulnerability April 2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of NSS are susceptible to a security vulnerability. A remote attacker can send crafted Base64-encoded data and execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service through an application crash. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following...

SA144 : OpenSSH Vulnerabilities January 2017

SUMMARY Blue Coat products using affected versions of OpenSSH are susceptible to several vulnerabilities. A remote attacker with access to an SSH server can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code on an SSH client. A local attacker can also exploit these vulnerabilities to obtain...

EMC RSA Security Analytics Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

EMC RSA Security Analytics SA is a suite of security intelligence analytics platforms from EMC Corporation. The platform leverages and extends the architecture and analytics capabilities of RSA NetWitness. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in EMC RSA SA versions 10.5.3 and 10.6.2. A...

CVE-2016-8215

EMC RSA Security Analytics 10.5.3 and 10.6.2 contains fixes for a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability that could potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system...

CVE-2016-8215

EMC RSA Security Analytics affected versions 10.5.3 and 10.6.2 contain a Reflected Cross‑Site Scripting vulnerability. A remote attacker could potentially exploit this to compromise the affected system. The vulnerability is addressed by fixes in 10.5.3 and 10.6.2.

SA139 : November 2016 NTP Security Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of the NTP reference implementation from ntp.org are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can modify the targets system time, prevent the target from synchronizing its time, cause denial of service through...

SA131 : TCP Session Hijacking in Operating Systems Supporting RFC 5961

SUMMARY Blue Coat products that include a vulnerable version of an operating system that supports RFC 5961 are susceptible to a TCP session hijacking vulnerability. A remote, off-path attacker can infer the sequence numbers of an existing TCP connection, and either reset the connection or inject...

SA124 : NSS Vulnerabilities March 2016

SUMMARY Blue Coat products that include affected versions of NSS are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service through application crashes, or to possibly execute arbitrary code. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following products...

SA120 : Truncated Diffie-Hellman Secret Generation in libssh2

SUMMARY Blue Coat products that include affected versions of libssh2 are susceptible to a truncated Diffie-Hellman secret length vulnerability. A remote man-in-the-middle MITM attacker can exploit this vulnerability to intercept SSH connections that originate from Blue Coat products. The MITM...

SA119 : Multiple NSS Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY Blue Coat products that include affected versions of NSS are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to trigger arbitrary code execution. The attacker can also cause denial of service through application crashes and memory corruption...

SA114 : GNU C Library (glibc) Remote Code Execution February 2016

SUMMARY Blue Coat products using an affected version of the GNU C Library glibc are susceptible to a remote execution attack. A remote attacker can send a crafted DNS response to the glibc DNS resolver and cause the resolver to crash or execute arbitrary code. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following...

Cisco Acquires OpenDNS for $635 Million

Cisco continues to spend on security, today announcing its intent to acquire San Francisco-based OpenDNS for $635 million. OpenDNS’ domain name system and cloud-based security services bring threat data collected from those platforms to Cisco’s security offerings. “To build on Cisco’s advanced...

RSA Web Threat Detection Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

RSA Web Threat Detection is a big data and security analytics solution. RSA Web Threat Detection suffers from a cross-site request forgery vulnerability that an attacker could exploit by tricking a user into clicking on a constructed link or browsing to a malicious Web site, resulting in the...

Army Research Lab Releases Dshell Forensics Framework

The U.S. Army has released to open source an internal forensics analysis framework that the Army Research Lab has been using for some time. The framework, known as Dshell, is a Python tool that runs on Linux and its designed to help analysts investigate compromises within their environments. The...

CVE-2014-0643

EMC RSA NetWitness before 9.8.5.19 and RSA Security Analytics before 10.2.4 and 10.3.x before 10.3.2, when Kerberos PAM is enabled, do not require a password, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging knowledge of a valid account name...

Authentication flaw

EMC RSA NetWitness before 9.8.5.19 and RSA Security Analytics before 10.2.4 and 10.3.x before 10.3.2, when Kerberos PAM is enabled, do not require a password, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveraging knowledge of a valid account name...

CVE-2014-0643

CVE-2014-0643 affects EMC RSA NetWitness (before 9.8.5.19) and RSA Security Analytics (before 10.2.4 and before 10.3.2) where Kerberos PAM is enabled. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by using a valid account name without a password, due to an authentication bypa...