GHSA-79MX-88W7-8F7Q XSS Filter Bypass via Encoded URL in validator

Versions of validator prior to 2.0.0 contained an xss filter method that is affected by several filter bypasses. This may result in a cross-site scripting vulnerability. Proof of Concept The xss function removes the word "javascript" when contained inside an attribute. However, it does not proper...

Incorrect value comparison in Ruby openssl

An issue was discovered in the OpenSSL library in Ruby when two OpenSSL::X509::Name objects are compared using ==, depending on the ordering, non-equal objects may return true. When the first argument is one character longer than the second, or the second argument contains a character that is one...

pysaml2 Improper Authentication vulnerability

pysaml2 version 4.4.0 and older accept any password when run with python optimizations enabled. This allows attackers to log in as any user without knowing their password...

A Cyber Engineering Primer: Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

According to the SANS Institute, "Vulnerability management is the process in which vulnerabilities in IT are identified and the risks of these vulnerabilities are evaluated. This evaluation leads to correcting the vulnerabilities and removing the risk or a formal risk acceptance by the management...

Essays from 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Security Platform

Carbon Black recently published a series of essays about the experiences of experts in the field on information security as they moved their endpoint security program to the cloud; this is one of those essays. To read the full series check out 7 Experts on Moving to a Cloud-Based Endpoint Securit...

CVE-2017-7436 libzypp accepts unsigned packages even when configured to check signatures

In libzypp before 20170803 it was possible to retrieve unsigned packages without a warning to the user which could lead to man in the middle or malicious servers to inject malicious RPM packages into a users system...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : PySAML2 vulnerability (USN-3520-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3520-1 advisory. It was discovered that PySAML2 incorrectly accepted any password when run with python optimizations enabled. An attacker could use this issue to authenticate as a...

OpenJDK: incorrect enforcement of certificate path restrictions (Security, 8179998)

It was discovered that the Security component of OpenJDK could fail to properly enforce restrictions defined for processing of X.509 certificate chains. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to make Java accept certificate using one of the disabled algorithms...

Design/Logic Flaw

Apache HTTP Server, in all releases prior to 2.2.32 and 2.4.25, was liberal in the whitespace accepted from requests and sent in response lines and headers. Accepting these different behaviors represented a security concern when httpd participates in any chain of proxies or interacts with back-en...

What is BDD Testing: Practical Examples of Behavior Driven Development Testing

The Need for Behavior Driven Development BDD Testing Tools It should come as no surprise to learn that testing is at the heart of our engineers' daily activities. Testing is intrinsic to our development process, both in practical terms and in our thinking. Our engineers work with complex systems...

Mixmax: [app.mixmax.com] Stored XSS on Adding new enhancement.

Hi Mixmax team, Today I just found a Stored XSS on app.mixmax.com by adding a new enhancement. Just follow the steps below to reproduce this bug. Vulnerable URL APP MIXMAX - Settings - Integrations & API Payload " Steps to reproduce - Go to the Vulnerable URL. - Click Integrations & API then clic...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8855

wolfSSL before 3.11.0 does not prevent wcDhAgree from accepting a malformed DH key...

Cookie leakage to wrong origins and non-restricted cookie acceptance

Security and maintenance release. - Security: Previously cookies of foo.bar.example.com were leaked to foo.bar. Additionally, any site could set cookies for any other site. Artax follows newer browser implementations now. Cookies can only be set on domains higher or equal to the current domain, b...

Cookie leakage to wrong origins and non-restricted cookie acceptance

Cookie leakage to wrong origins and non-restricted cookie acceptance...

ALPINE-CVE-2017-8301

LibreSSL 2.5.1 to 2.5.3 lacks TLS certificate verification if SSLgetverifyresult is relied upon for a later check of a verification result, in a use case where a user-provided verification callback returns 1, as demonstrated by acceptance of invalid certificates by nginx...

SUSE-SU-2017:0348-1 Security update for gnutls

This update for gnutls fixes the following security issues: - GnuTLS could have crashed when processing maliciously crafted OpenPGP certificates GNUTLS-SA-2017-2, bsc1018832, CVE-2017-5335, CVE-2017-5337, CVE-2017-5336 - GnuTLS could have falsely accepted certificates when using OCSP...

Internet Bug Bounty: msilib.OpenDatabase Type Confusion

I have reported a vulnerability in Python that is now fixed. My patch was accepted with minor changes. --- http://bugs.python.org/issue24594 The msilib.OpenDatabase method suffers from a type confusion vulnerability caused by the behavior of MsiOpenDatabase, the underlying win32 function utilized...

CVE-2016-5672

Intel Crosswalk before 19.49.514.5, 20.x before 20.50.533.11, 21.x before 21.51.546.0, and 22.x before 22.51.549.0 interprets a user's acceptance of one invalid X.509 certificate to mean that all invalid X.509 certificates should be accepted without prompting, which makes it easier for...

Firefox Health Reports could accept events from untrusted domains — Mozilla

Mozilla engineer Mark Goodwin discovered that the Firefox Health Report about:healthreport accepts certain events from any content document present in the remote-report iframe. If there were another vulnerability that allowed the injection of web content into the Firefox Health Report iframe, thi...

Security Misconfiguration Vulnerability in the AWS SDK for PHP

SECURITY FIX: This release addresses a security issue associated with CVE-2015-5723, specifically, fixes improper default directory umask behavior that could potentially allow unauthorized modifications of PHP code. Thanks to @ryan-lane for the initial report. Aws\Ec2 - Added support for...