Microsoft Windows 'CWDIllegalInDllSearch' Registry Setting

Windows Hosts can be hardened against DLL hijacking attacks by setting the The 'CWDIllegalInDllSearch' registry entry in to one of the following settings: - 0xFFFFFFFF Removes the current working directory from the default DLL search order - 1 Blocks a DLL Load from the current working directory ...

NSClient Default Password

The remote host is running an instance of NSClient, an addon for Nagios used to monitor Windows hosts, configured using a default password. Anyone can connect to it and retrieve sensitive information, such as process and service states, memory usage, etc. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

Orb Detection

Orb is installed on the remote Windows host. Orb is a peer-to- peer file sharing application for 'mycasting' digital content from a PC. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid31651; scriptversion"1.14"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

Several critical security vulnerabilities have been addressed in the newest releases of VMware's hosted product line

a. Host to guest shared folder HGFS traversal vulnerabilityOn Windows hosts, if you have configured a VMware host to guest shared folder HGFS, it is possible for a program running in the guest to gain access to the host's file system and create or modify executable files in sensitive locations...

VMware vulnerability in NAT networking

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 VULNERABILITY SUMMARY A vulnerability has been discovered in vmnat.exe on Windows hosts and vmnet-natd on Linux systems. The vulnerability makes it possible for a malicious guest using a NAT networking configuration to execute unwanted code on the hos...