Okta: Breach Affected All Customer Support Users

When KrebsOnSecurity broke the news on Oct. 20, 2023 that identity and authentication giant Okta had suffered a breach in its customer support department, Okta said the intrusion allowed hackers to steal sensitive data from fewer than one percent of its 18,000+ customers. But today, Okta revised...

CVE-2023-21418

Sandro Poppi, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found that the VAPIX API irissetup.cgi was vulnerable to path traversal attacks that allows for file deletion. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating with an operator- or administrator-privileged service account. The impact...

Path traversal

Sandro Poppi, member of the AXIS OS Bug Bounty Program, has found that the VAPIX API manageoverlayimage.cgi was vulnerable to path traversal attacks that allows for file/folder deletion. This flaw can only be exploited after authenticating with an operator- or administrator- privileged service...

PT-2023-29934 · Unknown · Capsule-Proxy

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: capsule-proxy versions prior to 0.4.5 Description: A bug in the RoleBinding reflector used by capsule-proxy gives ServiceAccount tenant owners the right to list Namespaces of other tenants backed by the same owner kind and name. This introduc...

Breaking the Chain of Data Access: The Importance of Separating Human and Application Users

Data, the lifeblood of any organization, relies on the database as its beating heart. As a result, businesses invest heavily in designing and monitoring all access to it. In traditional literature, there are two types of users: administrative users, who manage the entire lifecycle of a database...

PT-2023-26806 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GitLab EE versions 16.1 through 16.1.4 GitLab EE versions 16.2 through 16.2.4 GitLab EE versions 16.3 through 16.3.0 Description: An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE where an external user with an owner role on any group can escalate...

Hard-coded credentials in Technicolor TG670 DSL gateway router

Overview The Technicolor TG670 DSL Gateway Router includes a hard-coded service account that allows for authentication over services on the WAN interface, using HTTP, SSH, or TELNET. The authenticated user can use it to gain full administrative control of the router. Description A hard-coded...

Generative-AI apps & ChatGPT: Potential risks and mitigation strategies

Losing sleep over Generative-AI apps? You're not alone or wrong. According to the Astrix Security Research Group, mid size organizations already have, on average, 54 Generative-AI integrations to core systems like Slack, GitHub and Google Workspace and this number is only expected to grow. Contin...

Generative-AI apps & ChatGPT: Potential risks and mitigation strategies

Losing sleep over Generative-AI apps? You're not alone or wrong. According to the Astrix Security Research Group, mid size organizations already have, on average, 54 Generative-AI integrations to core systems like Slack, GitHub and Google Workspace and this number is only expected to grow. Contin...

Improper Privilege Management

github.com/rancher/rancher is vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management. The vulnerability exists because the library allowed standard users or above to elevate their permissions to Administrator in the local cluster, which can lead to manipulating Kubernetes secrets or gaining access to tokens...

CVE-2023-22647

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this...

Privilege escalation

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this...

CVE-2023-22647

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this...

CVE-2023-22647

An Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in SUSE Rancher allowed standard users to leverage their existing permissions to manipulate Kubernetes secrets in the local cluster, resulting in the secret being deleted, but their read-level permissions to the secret being preserved. When this...

GodPotato - Local Privilege Escalation Tool From A Windows Service Accounts To NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM

Based on the history of Potato privilege escalation for 6 years, from the beginning of RottenPotato to the end of JuicyPotatoNG, I discovered a new technology by researching DCOM, which enables privilege escalation in Windows 2012 - Windows 2022, now as long as you have "ImpersonatePrivilege"...

Join Our Webinar: Learn How to Defeat Ransomware with Identity-Focused Protection

Are you concerned about ransomware attacks? You're not alone. In recent years, these attacks have become increasingly common and can cause significant damage to organizations of all sizes. But there's good news - with the right security measures in place, such as real-time MFA and service account...

The Service Accounts Challenge: Can't See or Secure Them Until It's Too Late

Here's a hard question to answer: 'How many service accounts do you have in your environment?'. A harder one is: 'Do you know what these accounts are doing?'. And the hardest is probably: 'If any of your service account was compromised and used to access resources would you be able to detect and...

The Service Accounts Challenge: Can't See or Secure Them Until It's Too Late

Here's a hard question to answer: 'How many service accounts do you have in your environment?'. A harder one is: 'Do you know what these accounts are doing?'. And the hardest is probably: 'If any of your service account was compromised and used to access resources would you be able to detect and...

"It's The Service Accounts, Stupid": Why Do PAM Deployments Take (almost) Forever To Complete?

Privileged Access Management PAM solutions are regarded as the common practice to prevent identity threats to administrative accounts. In theory, the PAM concept makes absolute sense: place admin credentials in a vault, rotate their passwords, and closely monitor their sessions. However, the hars...

"It's The Service Accounts, Stupid": Why Do PAM Deployments Take (almost) Forever To Complete?

Privileged Access Management PAM solutions are regarded as the common practice to prevent identity threats to administrative accounts. In theory, the PAM concept makes absolute sense: place admin credentials in a vault, rotate their passwords, and closely monitor their sessions. However, the hars...