Finding Weaknesses Before the Attackers Do

This blog post originally appeared as an article in M-Trends 2019. FireEye Mandiant red team consultants perform objectives-based assessments that emulate real cyber attacks by advanced and nation state attackers across the entire attack lifecycle by blending into environments and observing how...

First steps with Docker: installation in CentOS 7, vulnerability assessment, interactive mode and saving changes

Docker and containerization are literally everywhere. IMHO, this changes the IT landscape much more than virtualization and clouds. Let's say you have a host, you checked it and find out that there are no vulnerable packages. But what's the point if this host runs Docker containers with their own...

Kaboom - Automatic Pentest

kaboom is a script that automates the penetration test. It performs several tasks for each phase of pentest: 1. Information gathering nmap-unicornscan TCP scan UDP scan 2. Vulnerability assessment nmap-nikto-dirb-searchsploit-msfconsole It tests several services: smb ssh snmp smtp ftp tftp ms-sql...

OSSEC/Wazuh ossec-authd Service Detection (TCP)

TCP based detection of a OSSEC/Wazuh ossec-authd service. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Assess Vulnerabilities, Misconfigurations in AWS Golden AMI Pipelines

Today we’re starting a blog series focused on how to integrate Qualys solutions into DevSecOps for securing cloud infrastructures. In this initial post, we’ll discuss the importance of assessing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on AWS pipelines. When developing golden Amazon Machine Images...

Nessus 8.2.1 - Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Nessus 8.2.1 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Author: Ozer Goker Vendor Homepage: https://www.tenable.com Software Link: https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus Version: 8.2.1 Introduction Nessus is 1 For Vulnerabilit...

Nessus 8.2.1 - Cross-Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Nessus 8.2.1 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting Date: 29.01.2019 Exploit Author: Ozer Goker Vendor Homepage: https://www.tenable.com Software Link: https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus Version: 8.2.1 Introduction Nessus is 1 For Vulnerability Assessment From the beginning, we've...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for openssh (openSUSE-SU-2019:0093-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Nessus 8.2.1 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Nessus 8.2.1 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting Date: 29.01.2019 Exploit Author: Ozer Goker Vendor Homepage: https://www.tenable.com Software Link: https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus Version: 8.2.1 Introduction Nessus is 1 For Vulnerability Assessment From the beginning, we've...

How CB LiveOps Helps with Vulnerability Assessment

Security and IT Operations teams often have no reliable way to assess the current state of endpoints across their enterprise, leading to increased risk of breach, inability to make informed remediation decisions, and unnecessary spending on infrastructure maintenance. A real-time endpoint query a...

phpTransformer 2016.9 - SQL Injection

phpTransformer 2016.9 - SQL Injection Exploit Title: phpTransformer 2016.9 - SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 2019-01-18 Exploit Author: Ihsan Sencan Vendor Homepage: http://phptransformer.com/ Software Link:...

What’s wrong with patch-based Vulnerability Management checks?

My last post about Guinea Pigs and Vulnerability Management products may seem unconvincing without some examples. So, let's review one. It's a common problem that exists among nearly all VM vendors, I will demonstrate it on Tenable Nessus. If you perform vulnerability scans, you most likely seen...

Hackers Using Zero-Width Spaces to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cybercriminals and email scammers are already being using in the wild to bypass security features of Microsoft Office 365, including Safe Links, which are originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks...

Code injection

Sennheiser HeadSetup 7.3.4903 places Certification Authority CA certificates into the Trusted Root CA store of the local system, and publishes the private key in the SennComCCKey.pem file within the public software distribution, which allows remote attackers to spoof arbitrary web sites or softwa...

SQLMap v1.2.10 - Automatic SQL Injection And Database Takeover Tool

SQLMap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lastin...

Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

Making Expect scripts for SSH Authentication and Privilege Elevation

Expect can help you to automate interactive console applications. For example, expect script can go to some Linux host via SSH with password authentication, make additional authentication procedures su, sudo to elevate privileges and execute some commands. Like Vulnerability and Compliance...

CVE-2018-1000801

okular version 18.08 and earlier contains a Directory Traversal vulnerability in function "unpackDocumentArchive..." in "core/document.cpp" that can result in Arbitrary file creation on the user workstation. This attack appear to be exploitable via he victim must open a specially crafted Okular...

Zabbix Threat Control - Zabbix Vulnerability Assessment Plugin

This plugin transforms your Zabbix monitoring system into vulnerability, risk and security managment system for your infrastructure. What the plugin does It provides Zabbix with information about vulnerabilities existing in your entire infrastructure and suggests easily applicable remediation...

badKarma - Advanced Network Reconnaissance Toolkit

badKarma is a python3 GTK+ network infrastructure penetration testing toolkit. badKarma aim to help the tester in all the penetration testing phases information gathering, vulnerability assessment,exploitation,post-exploitation and reporting. It allow the tester to save time by having...