The AI-Generated Child Abuse Nightmare Is Here

Thousands of child abuse images are being created with AI. New images of old victims are appearing, as criminals trade datasets...

Linux rootkits explained – Part 2: Loadable kernel modules

Part 2 dives into the world of LKMs Loadable Kernel Modules and kernel-space rootkits to explore what LKMs are, how attackers abuse them, and how to detect them...

A Controversial Plan to Scan Private Messages for Child Abuse Meets Fresh Scandal

An EU government body is pushing a proposal to combat child sexual abuse material that has significant privacy implications. Its lead advocate is making things even messier...

A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise

Though often viewed as the “crown jewel” of the US intelligence community, fresh reports of abuse by NSA employees and chaos in the US Congress put the tool's future in jeopardy...

CVE-2023-28797 LPE using arbitrary file delete with Symlinks

Zscaler Client Connector for Windows before 4.1 writes/deletes a configuration file inside specific folders on the disk. A malicious user can replace the folder and execute code as a privileged user...

Child Exploitation and the Crypto Wars

Susan Landau published an excellent essay on the current justification for the government breaking end-to-end-encryption: child sexual abuse and exploitation CSAE. She puts the debate into historical context, discusses the problem of CSAE, and explains why breaking encryption isnt the solution...

Insufficient validation of contracts when setting authorised address.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact governance can set Malicious contract as authorised address and since the AddressProvider.sol is a singular source of truth an attacker can craft an exploit to abuse authorizedAddress privileges. Proof of Concept A miniaturised POC is shown below. in the...

GHSA-FC75-58R8-RM3H Wagtail vulnerable to disclosure of user names via admin bulk action views

Impact A user with a limited-permission editor account for the Wagtail admin can make a direct URL request to the admin view that handles bulk actions on user accounts. While authentication rules prevent the user from making any changes, the error message discloses the display names of user...

CVE-2023-35180

The SolarWinds Access Rights Manager was susceptible to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows authenticated users to abuse SolarWinds ARM API...

CVE-2023-35180

The SolarWinds Access Rights Manager was susceptible to Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows authenticated users to abuse SolarWinds ARM API...

How Fraudsters Execute Account Opening Abuse

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SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Security Vulnerability

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is a lightweight review management system from SolarWinds. A security vulnerability exists in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager that stems from allowing a user to abuse incorrect folder permissions, which can lead to privilege escalation...

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Code Issue Vulnerability

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is a lightweight review management system from SolarWinds, Inc. A code issue vulnerability exists in SolarWinds Access Rights Manager that stems from allowing authenticated users to abuse the SolarWinds ARM API...

CVE-2023-45660 Require strict cookies for image proxy requests in Nextcloud Mail

Nextcloud mail is an email app for the Nextcloud home server platform. In affected versions a missing check of origin, target and cookies allows for an attacker to abuse the proxy endpoint to denial of service a third server. It is recommended that the Nextcloud Mail is upgraded to 2.2.8 or 3.3.0...

AZL-35116 CVE-2023-45142 affecting package prometheus for versions less than 2.45.4-1

OpenTelemetry-Go Contrib is a collection of third-party packages for OpenTelemetry-Go. A handler wrapper out of the box adds labels http.useragent and http.method that have unbound cardinality. It leads to the server's potential memory exhaustion when many malicious requests are sent to it. HTTP...

AZL-34622 CVE-2023-39325 affecting package containerized-data-importer for versions less than 1.57.0-8

A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption. While the total number of requests is bounded by the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting, resetting an in-progress request allows the attacker to create a ne...

Unrestricted delegator contract deployment risks gas abuse; implement mitigations.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact deployProxyDelegatorIfNeeded deploys a new delegator contract if one does not exist. This could be abused to spam deploy many delegators and waste gas. Proof of Concept The issue with potentially spam deploying many delegator contracts occurs in the...

Peplink Surf SOHO HW1 Operating System Command Injection Vulnerability

The Peplink Surf SOHO HW1 is a small router from Peplink. An OS command injection vulnerability exists in Peplink Surf SOHO HW1 v6.3.5, which stems from an OS command injection vulnerability in the api.cgi cmd.mvpn.x509.write function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute command...

New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise

Certain online risks to children are on the rise, according to a recent report from Thorn, a technology nonprofit whose mission is to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Research shared in the Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual Abuse 2023 report, indicates that minors are...

F5 BIG-IP 数据伪造问题漏洞

F5 BIG-IP is an application delivery platform from F5 that integrates network traffic orchestration, load balancing, intelligent DNS, and remote access policy management. A cryptographic signature validation error vulnerability exists in the F5 BIG-IP Edge client, which can be exploited by an...