A week in security (April 10 - 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: How the cops buy a "God view" of your location data, with Bennett Cyphers: Lock and Code S04E09 Apple releases emergency updates for two known-to-be-exploited vulnerabilities Don't plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI KFC, Pizza Hut owner employe...

CVE-2022-28353

In the External Redirect Warning Plugin 1.3 for MyBB, the redirect URL aka external.php?url= is vulnerable to XSS...

MyBB External Redirect Warning Plugin 跨站脚本漏洞

MyBB MyBulletinBoard is a free and web-based forum software developed by MYBB team using PHP and MySQL. The software is easy to use, supports multi-language, scalable and so on. A security vulnerability exists in MyBB External Redirect Warning Plugin version 1.3, which originates from the presenc...

PT-2023-12939 · Mybb · External Redirect Warning Plugin

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: External Redirect Warning Plugin version 1.3 for MyBB Description: The issue concerns a problem where the redirect URL, also known as external.php?url=, is susceptible to XSS. This means an attacker could potentially inject malicious scripts...

CVE-2022-28353

The CVE-2022-28353 entry concerns the MyBB External Redirect Warning Plugin (version 1.3). The vulnerability is an XSS in the redirect URL parameter external.php?url=, allowing injected scripts when users follow the redirect. The affected component is the redirect handling code for external.php, ...

Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and the Federal Communications Commission FCC about "juice jacking," a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile...

Sextortion "assistance" scammers con victims further

The FBI is warning of a particular aspect of sextortion scams: Supposed organisations that offer "help" to remove stolen images, often at a significant financial cost and no guarantee of success. Sextortion, the act of blackmailing individuals for cash in return for not leaking sensitive imagery...

FBI Advising People to Avoid Public Charging Stations

The FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations, worrying that the combination power-data port can be used to inject malware onto the devices: Avoid using free charging stations in airports, hotels, or shopping centers. Bad actors have figured out ways to use public USB por...

Don't plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI

In a recent tweet, the FBI office in Denver warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers with the objective of infecting devices with malware or other software that can give hackers access to your phone, tablet or...

Malicious code in mineflayer-patcher (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 5249a1e663bcc7ec837346cbcd549a3e0e2af0039ffd68a532f043c025ec119f Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

EasyNas 1.1.0 - OS Command Injection Exploit

Exploit Title: EasyNas 1.1.0 - OS Command Injection Exploit Author: Ivan Spiridonov email protected Author Blog: https://xbz0n.medium.com Version: 1.0.0 Vendor home page : https://www.easynas.org Authentication Required: Yes CVE : CVE-2023-0830 !/usr/bin/python3 import requests import sys import...

EasyNas 1.1.0 Command Injection

Exploit Title: EasyNas 1.1.0 - OS Command Injection Date: 2023-02-9 Exploit Author: Ivan Spiridonov [email protected] Author Blog: https://xbz0n.medium.com Version: 1.0.0 Vendor home page : https://www.easynas.org Authentication Required: Yes CVE : CVE-2023-0830 !/usr/bin/python3 import...

Exploit for Incorrect Authorization in Cacti

Cacti v1.2.22 command injection CVE-2022-46169 vulnerable ap...

GHSA-2G5W-29Q9-W6HX mindsdb arbitrary file write when extracting a remotely retrieved Tarball

Summary An unsafe extraction is being performed using tarfile.extractall from a remotely retrieved tarball. Which may lead to the writing of the extracted files to an unintended location. Sometimes, the vulnerability is called a TarSlip or a ZipSlip variant. Details I commented the following...

Internet Download Manager v6.41 Build 3 - Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Exploit Title: Internet Download Manager v6.41 Build 3 - Remote Code Execution RCE Exploit Author: M. Akil Gündoğan Contact: https://twitter.com/akilgundogan Vendor Homepage: https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/ Software Link:...

CVE-2023-21068

In TBD of TBD, there is a possible way to boot with a hidden debug policy due to a missing warning to the user. This could lead to local escalation of privilege after preparing the device, hiding the warning, and passing the phone to a new user, with no additional execution privileges needed. Use...

PT-2023-17860 · Google · Android

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Android versions prior to the fixed version Description: The issue allows for local escalation of privilege due to a missing warning to the user, enabling the device to boot with a hidden debug policy. This can be exploited by preparing the...

Google Pixel 安全漏洞

Google Pixel is a smartphone from the American company Google Google. Google Pixel suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from a lack of warning to the user and could potentially be initiated using a hidden debugging strategy...

CVE-2023-21068

The CVE-2023-21068 entry concerns Android kernel with a local privilege escalation via booting with a hidden debug policy due to a missing user warning. Affected component is the Android kernel; description states that after preparing the device and hiding the warning, a user can hand the device ...

"pb_op_longer_hb for critical process NSPPE-00 (1285) 150 secs" related log explanation

ns.log: Mar 9 22:29:11 gash-vpx-uat2 nssync: NSSYNC: SYNC started.... Mar 9 22:29:11 10.168.253.225 03/09/2023:14:29:11 GMT gash-vpx-uat2 0-PPE-0 : default EVENT STATECHANGE 4713434 0 : Device "self node 10.168.253.225" - State "SYNC start " Mar 9 22:29:12 gash-vpx-uat2 nssync: Send HA File sync ...