A week in security (September 2 – 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a smart social engineering toolkit, delved into TrickBot tampering with trusted texts, and explained five ways to help keep remote workers safe. Other cybersecurity news A new Chinese Deepfake app is under fire for privacy concerns related to the use o...

Ansible Tower 3.x < 3.3.5 / 3.4.x < 3.4.3 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The version of Ansible Tower running on the remote web server is 3.3.x prior to 3.3.5 or 3.4.x prior to 3.4.3. It is, therefore, affected by a anauthorized access vulnerability due to a RabbitMQ misconfiguration. The configuration does not set a secure channel for messaging celery workers,...

CVE-2019-9821

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

CVE-2019-9821

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

CVE-2019-9821

CVE-2019-9821 : A use-after-free in AssertWorkerThread caused by a race with shared workers affects Mozilla Firefox versions before 67. The issue can lead to a potentially exploitable crash (no exploitation details provided in the documents). Affected product: Mozilla Firefox; vulnerable componen...

CVE-2019-9821

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

Google Chrome Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-21123)

Google Chrome is a web browser from Google, and Service Workers is one of the components that provides offline support for web applications. A security vulnerability exists in Service Workers in Google Chrome versions prior to 68.0.3440.75. A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtai...

CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

Design/Logic Flaw

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-5823

CVE-2019-5823 corresponds to a forced navigation from a service worker vulnerability in Chromium/Google Chrome, allowing navigation restriction bypass via a crafted HTML page. Affected products include Chromium/Chrome before version 74.0.3729.108. The issue is described as an access restriction b...

CVE-2019-5823

Insufficient policy enforcement in service workers in Google Chrome prior to 74.0.3729.108 allowed a remote attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2019-9821

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9821

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in AssertWorkerThread due to a race condition with shared workers. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox 67...

Mobile Risks Boom in a Post-Perimeter World

Cybercriminals are now taking a mobile-first approach to hacking the enterprise. Case in point, last month a half-billion Apple iOS users were stung by an attack exploiting an unpatched bug in Chrome for iOS. Crooks managed to hijack user session and redirect traffic to malicious websites...

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox. Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with...