Online Automated Tasks: Huginn

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on yo...

Apple iOS Process Modification Vulnerability

Apple iOS is the latest operating system that runs on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch devices. Apple iOS has a security vulnerability in the ROOT process using the processorsettasks API that allows a local process to modify other processes without authorization checks...

Tasks, microtasks, queues and schedules

When I told my colleague Matt Gaunt I was thinking of writing a piece on microtask queueing and execution within the browser's event loop, he said "I'll be honest with you Jake, I'm not going to read that". Well, I've written it anyway, so we're all going to sit here and enjoy it, ok? Actually, i...

Critical Persistent Injection Vulnerability in Apple App Store and iTunes

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the official Apple’s App Store and iTunes Store, affecting millions of Apple users. Vulnerability-Lab Founder and security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri discovered an Application-Side input validation web vulnerability that actually resides in the...

Internet Download Manager - OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution

Internet Download Manager - OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution !/usr/bin/php Run Site Grabber 4 . Enter any word "Start page/address" 5 . Click Addvance 6 . check "Enter Login and password manually at the following web page" 7 . Enter your exploit link http://ipaddress:80/ 8 . Next -- Nex...

This Organic Computer is Made up from Brains of Rats and Monkeys

Brains are more powerful than computers. So why not build a computer from Brain? In fact, Multiple Brains as per sayings, "Two heads are better than one." Scientists at Duke University have done exactly that. They have successfully developed the first instance of a Brain-machine interface that...

Pearson ProctorCache contains hard coded credentials

Overview The Pearson ProctorCache software uses a hard coded password for administrative tasks. Description The ProctorCache is designed to cache the testing content, as well as cache the responses and maintain a client list of active test-takers. ProctorCache is a server software package install...

NetFlow Analyzer fails to restrict access permissions

Overview NetFlow Analyzer provided by Zoho Corporation fails to restrict access permissions. Tomoshige Hasegawa, Akihito Mukai reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact Administrative operations, for...

Best Practices for Microsoft Data Deduplication

Purpose This article documents Best Practices, Limitations, and Considerations relating to the use of storage that has Microsoft Windows Deduplication enabled when storing backup files created and managed by Veeam Backup & Replication. Considerations and Recommendations CRITICAL Veeam strongly...

Moodle 2.7.x < 2.7.1 XSS

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Microsoft Task Scheduler Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Windows is a windowed operating system developed by Microsoft Corporation in the United States. Microsoft Task Scheduler is used for task scheduling. Due to the presence of invalid tasks on some systems, Task Scheduler is implemented with an elevation of privilege vulnerability. Exploiting this...

MS15-037: Vulnerability in Windows Task Scheduler Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (3046269)

The remote Windows host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper handling of invalid tasks in the Task Scheduler. If a known invalid task is present on the system, a local attacker can exploit the task to cause Task Scheduler to execute a crafted application with System...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the administrative backend in MyBB aka MyBulletinBoard before 1.8.4 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 MIME-type field in an add action in the config-attachmenttypes module to admin/index.php; 2...

Built-In Backdoor Found in Popular Chinese Android Smartphones

Chinese smartphone manufacturers have been criticized many times for suspected backdoors in its products, the popular Chinese smartphone brands, Xiaomi and Star N9500 smartphones are the top examples. Now, the China's third-largest mobile and world's sixth-largest phone manufacturer 'Coolpad', ha...

WordPress 3 persistent script injection

OVERVIEW ======== A security flaw in WordPress 3 allows injection of JavaScript into certain text fields. In particular, the problem affects comment boxes on WordPress posts and pages. These don't require authentication by default. The JavaScript injected into a comment is executed when the targe...

SIP Script Remote Command Execution via Shellshock

The remote host appears to be running SIP. SIP itself is not vulnerable to Shellshock; however, any Bash script that SIP runs for filtering or other routing tasks could potentially be affected if the script exports an environmental variable from the content or headers of a SIP message. A negative...

Feng Office - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

Feng Office - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting Affected software: Feng Office - URL: http://www.fengoffice.com/web/demo.php Discovered by: Provensec Website: http://www.provensec.com Type of vulnerability: XSS Stored Feng Office is a Collaboration tool that includes a CRM, Communication, Document...

PT-2014-5388

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Moodle versions 2.7.0 through 2.7.1 Description The issue concerns multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via specific vectors, including crafted...

NewsScript Access Validation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12761/info NewsScript is reported prone to an access validation vulnerability. This issue may allow an unauthorized attacker to add, modify and delete messages. It is reported that an attacker can exploit this issue by...

IBM U2 UniVerse 10.0 .0.9 UVADMSH Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8209/info Under certain configurations, UniVerse allows the 'uvadm' user to perform certain administration tasks for the software. It has been reported that the uvadmsh binary does not perform bounds checking when parsing...