A week in security (October 14 – 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we tried to unlock the future of the password its vulnerabilities, current alternatives, and possible future disappearance, analyzed the lagging response by many businesses in adopting a patch for Pulse VPN vulnerability, looked at Instagram’s bulked-up security...

HackerOne: Any user with access to program can resume and suspend HackerOne Gateway

An Insecure Direct Object Reference IDOR vulnerability is present in the UpdateGatewayProgramStateMutation that'd allow an attacker to suspend and resume the HackerOne Gateway feature for any program the user has access to. This includes any private programs that use the Gateway product and have ...

Pulse VPN patched their vulnerability, but businesses are trailing behind

In April 2019, Pulse Secure published an advisory about a vulnerability in their software. In August, cybercriminals were massively scanning for systems that were running a vulnerable version. Now it’s October, and still many organizations have not applied the patches that are available for this...

Cisco Aironet Access Points Plagued By Critical, High-Severity Flaws

Cisco Systems has released a security update stomping out critical and high-severity flaws impacting its Aironet access points, which are entry-level wireless access points APs used by mid-size enterprises in their offices or small warehouses. It also issued a slew of additional patches addressin...

Fortinet FortiOS SSL VPN Directory Traversal (CVE-2018-13379)

A directory traversal vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiOS. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access arbitrary files on the affected system...

CVE-2019-15261

A vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points APs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to...

Input validation

A vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points APs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-15261 Cisco Aironet Access Points Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points APs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to...

CVE-2019-15261

Cisco Aironet Access Points are affected by CVE-2019-15261, a DoS due to insufficient GRE frame validation in PPTP VPN packet processing. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause an AP to reload, disrupting associated clients. Cisco and CVE records indicate the vulnerability is addressed by...

CVE-2019-15261 Cisco Aironet Access Points Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol PPTP VPN packet processing functionality in Cisco Aironet Access Points APs could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload, resulting in a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to...

HackerOne: Private program disclosure via `vpn_suspended` GraphQL query

Summary: vpnsuspended of Team object got exposed Description: An attacker can get vpnsuspended value of any program including external program which also have private program eg. █████ and external program which does not have private program What an attacker can do with this ? If an external...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure VPN

The CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on multiple vulnerabilities affecting Pulse Secure Virtual Private Network VPN. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. These vulnerabilities have been targeted by advanced persistent thre...

The vulnerability of the Next-Generation Multicast VPN (NG-mVPN) service in the Junos OS allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Next-Generation Multicast VPN NG-mVPN service in the Junos OS operating system is related to the lack of data validation during transmission. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service failures by sending specially crafted IPv4 packets...

Pulse Secure VPN contains multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Pulse Secure SSL VPN contains multiple vulnerabilities that can allow remote unauthenticated remote attacker to compromise the VPN server and connected clients. Description Pulse Secure released an out-of-cycle advisory along with software patches for the various affected products on Apr...

Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance shell injection vulnerability

Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance is a firewall appliance from Sophos UK.CyberoamOS is the set of operating systems that run on it. A security vulnerability exists in the Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance running CyberoamOS versions prior to 10.6.6 MR-6. The vulnerability can be exploited by an...

CVE-2019-17059

A shell injection vulnerability on the Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance with CyberoamOS before 10.6.6 MR-6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the Web Admin and SSL VPN consoles...

Sql injection

A shell injection vulnerability on the Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance with CyberoamOS before 10.6.6 MR-6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the Web Admin and SSL VPN consoles...

CVE-2019-17059

A shell injection vulnerability on the Sophos Cyberoam firewall appliance with CyberoamOS before 10.6.6 MR-6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the Web Admin and SSL VPN consoles...

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software SSL VPN Denial of Service Vulnerability

A denial of service DoS vulnerability exists in Secure Sockets Layer SSL VPN feature of Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software due to incorrect handling of Base64-encoded strings. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via opening many SSL VPN sessions to an affected...

CVE-2019-0066

An unexpected status return value weakness in the Next-Generation Multicast VPN NG-mVPN service of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows attacker to cause a Denial of Service DoS condition and core the routing protocol daemon rpd process when a specific malformed IPv4 packet is received by the device...