How to use Struts2 vulnerabilities to bypass firewall get Root permissions-bug warning-the black bar safety net

This article I want to share is about the Apache struts2 CVE-2013–2251 vulnerability, since the vulnerability can lead to remote code execution, had once been widely abused. The vulnerability principle is that, by manipulating the prefix“action:”/”redirect:”/”redirectAction:”parameter in the Stru...

Imperva Python SDK – We’re All Consenting SecOps Here

Managing your WAF can be a complicated task. Custom policies, signatures, application profiles, gateway plugins… there’s a good reason ours is considered the best in the world. Back when security teams were in charge of just a handful of WAF stacks and a few dozen applications, things were...

Drupalgeddon3: Third Critical Flaw Discovered

For the third time in the last 30 days, Drupal site owners are forced to patch their installations. As the Drupal team noted a few days ago, new versions of the Drupal CMS were released, to patch one more critical RCE vulnerability affecting Drupal 7 and 8 core. The vulnerability, code-named...

Keeping Your WAF Relevant: Emergency Feed Pushes New Mitigations in Just Hours

We previously reported that the overall number of new web application vulnerabilities in 2017 showed a 212% increase from 2016’s 6,615 to a whopping 14,082. This spike was due, in part, to high-profile vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, Shellshock, POODLE, Apache Struts 2 and more recently, Meltdow...

Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks

Web Application Firewalls are the most advanced firewall capabilities available to IT teams. Deploying the appropriate WAF is important, especially these days when the security threat landscape is changing so rapidly. In a previous post, we introduced Web Application Firewalls: Securing Modern We...

ModSecurity WAF 3.0 for Nginx - Denial of Service Vulnerability

Exploit for linux platform in category dos / poc / 1. Use-After-Free UAF / During one of the engagements my team tested a WAF running in production Nginx + ModSecurity + OWASP Core Rule Set 123. In the system logs I found information about the Nginx worker processes being terminated due to memory...

CVE-2018-9230

OpenResty

CVE-2018-9230

In OpenResty through 1.13.6.1, URI parameters are obtained using the ngx.req.geturiargs and ngx.req.getpostargs functions that ignore parameters beyond the hundredth one, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions or interfere with certain Web Application Firewall...

DevOps-Ready WAF: Scaling Security for a More Agile Environment

With the maturation of DevOps, the growing concern around the security and compliance of more agile application development systems has made 2018 the year for DevSecOps. According to a study by Gartner, over 80% of development teams will have embedded DevSecOps by 2021. When evaluating how a WAF...

Drupal Issues Highly Critical Patch: Over 1M Sites Vulnerable

Drupal released a patch for a “highly critical” flaw in versions 6, 7 and 8 of its CMS platform that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected site simply by visiting it. Drupal also warned an unprivileged and untrusted attacker could modify or delete data hosted on affected CMS...

Web Application Firewalls: The Definitive Primer

Firewalls have traditionally been focused on network layer traffic. As attacks have evolved, however, they have climbed the ladder of the Open Systems Interconnection OSI model. Web Application Firewalls WAFs have developed as a result, not only to track network traffic but also to understand...

XSStrike v2.0 - An Advanced XSS Detection And Exploitation Suit

XSStrike is an advanced XSS detection suite. It has a powerful fuzzing engine and provides zero false positive result using fuzzy matching. XSStrike is the first XSS scanner to generate its own payloads. It is intelligent enough to detect and break out of various contexts. Made by Somdev Sangwan...

ModSecurity For Nginx Use-After-Free

Hey, TL;DR: UAF in a "non-release" version of ModSecurity for Nginx. !RCE|DoS, no need to panic. Plus some old and even older exploitation vectors. / 1. Use-After-Free UAF / During one of the engagements my team tested a WAF running in production Nginx + ModSecurity + OWASP Core Rule Set 123. In...

Shopify: XSS *.myshopify.com/collections/vendors?q=

WAF cut ", but " and ' still in. 1. PoC example link" style="font-size: 1001pt;" 2.mouse on X 3. .. 4.XSS alert message Impact XSS atack...

NetRefer Chooses Imperva Incapsula WAF: A Case Study

Since 2005, companies have been using NetRefer’s performance marketing software to fully automate their affiliate programs. From enrollment through customer relationship management CRM, tracking, finance and rewards management and payments, NetRefer’s Unified Performance Marketing Platform...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiGate UTM WAF appliances with FortiOS 4.3.x before 4.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving the 1 Endpoint Monitor, 2 Dialup List, or 3 Log&Report Display modules, or the...

CVE-2012-0941

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiGate UTM WAF appliances with FortiOS 4.3.x before 4.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving the 1 Endpoint Monitor, 2 Dialup List, or 3 Log&Report Display modules, or the...

CVE-2012-0941

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiGate UTM WAF appliances with FortiOS 4.3.x before 4.3.6 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving the 1 Endpoint Monitor, 2 Dialup List, or 3 Log&Report Display modules, or the...

CVE-2012-0941

Fortinet FortiGate UTM WAF appliances running FortiOS 4.3.x before 4.3.6 are affected by multiple XSS vulnerabilities. Exploitation vectors include the Endpoint Monitor, Dialup List, or Log&Report Display modules, or the fields_sorted_opt parameter to user/auth/list and endpointcompliance/app_det...

Rockstar Games: Stored XSS in Snapmatic + R★Editor comments

Summary provided by the Researcher, @europa . I requested the disclosure of what I hope is the final report regarding stored cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities on the Rockstar Games SocialClub, to also allow me to summarize the research that went into the other 5 reports. Have fun! Report 1 The...