Defenders Need to Embrace Offensive Computer Security Skillsets

MIAMI—Defense may win football championships, but it gets steamrolled in computer security arenas. “A dollar of offense beats a dollar of defense,” said Nate Fick, CEO of Endgame Inc., on Thursday during his keynote address at Infiltrate Conference. Fick’s talk in front of an audience of exploit...

Bypass of application specific PIN - ownCloud

The ownCloud Android application does support setting a PIN that has to be provided before the application can be opened. An attacker may remove the PIN by clearing the application data via the Android system settings. By doing that the application information would be removed while the...

Gratipay: An adversary can harvest email address for spamming.

The website is displaying email address. These email address can be harvested by automated programs called bots and then used as a target for spamming. 1. Use any Email extractor tool or Add on. Here I have used Chrome Email Extractor Add on offered by Mr. Alien. 2. In Browser open...

Drone Application Privacy, Security Shortcomings

This Threatpost op-ed is part of a series of guest contributions from computer security research and policy experts. Today, we feature Kaspersky Lab’s Kurt Baumgartner. Boulder, Colorado’s Open Space and Mountain Parks winter photo gallery displays parts of the beautiful and productive 45,000-plu...

Modern Defenders Share, Visualize and Succeed

TENERIFE, Spain – Network defenders who rely solely on lists of assets to protect are running a fool’s errand. Instead, it’s crucial to think in graphs to not only visualize threats, but also to understand network edges, and dependencies between assets and accounts in order to be able to capture...

Full installation path disclosure through error message - ownCloud

ownCloud returns exception error messages to the user in two different places, allowing an authenticated adversary to gain information about the installation path of the ownCloud instance. There is no further information disclosure. Affected Software ownCloud Server 8.1.4 CVE-2016-1501...

ownCloud: apps.owncloud.com: Referer protection Bypassed

@herlove has reported a vulnerability within the appstore at apps.owncloud.com allowing an adversary to bypass the HTTP referer based CSRF protection. This issue was caused by an insufficient regular expression which has been patched meanwhile. On request of the reporter this issue has been...

Command injection when using external SMB storage - ownCloud

The external legacy SMB storage not using php-libsmbclient of ownCloud was not properly neutralizing all special elements which allows an adversary to execute arbitrary SMB commands. Effectively this allows an attacker to gain access to any file on the system or overwrite it, potentially leading ...

Server: Information Exposure Through Directory Listing in the file scanner

Due to an incorrect usage of an ownCloud internal file system function the passed path to the file scanner was resolved relatively. An authenticated adversary may thus be able to get a listing of directories but not the containing files existing on the filesystem. However, it is not possible to...

Updated owncloud package fixes security vulnerabilities

In ownCloud before 6.0.8 and 8.0.4, a bug in the SDK used to connect ownCloud against the Dropbox server might allow the owner of "Dropbox.com" to gain access to any files on the ownCloud server if an external Dropbox storage was mounted CVE-2015-4715. In ownCloud before 6.0.8 and 8.0.4, the...

Server: Command injection when using external SMB storage

The external SMB storage of ownCloud was not properly neutralizing all special elements which allows an adversary to execute arbitrary SMB commands. This was caused by improperly sanitizing the ; character which is interpreted as command separator by smbclient the used software to connect to SMB...

Maligno v2.0 - Metasploit Payload Server

Maligno is an open source penetration testing tool written in Python that serves Metasploit payloads. It generates shellcode with msfvenom and transmits it over HTTP or HTTPS. The shellcode is encrypted with AES and encoded prior to transmission. Maligno also comes with a client tool, which...

Christofer Hoff on Mixed Martial Arts, Active Defense, and Security

CANCUN–In his keynote talk at the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit Monday Christofer Hoff, the vice president and CTO of the security business at Juniper Networks stressed that in security and martial arts alike, it’s hard to be a skilled defender if you don’t understand how your adversaries pul...

Researchers: PlugX More Prominent Than Ever

Existing in some form since 2008, the popular remote access tool PlugX has as notorious a history as any malware, but according to researchers the tool saw a spike of popularity in 2014 and is the go-to malware for many adversary groups. Many attacks, especially those occurring during the latter...

Local file disclosure due to the preview system - ownCloud

ownCloud includes a preview system which generates the small thumbnails shown in the file list of the web interface. This functionality can be controlled with the enablepreviews switch in config.php and is enabled by default. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities have been found within the preview...

Server: ACLs not properly enforced in "documents" application

The "documents" application is a collaborative web-based online editor for ODT files. Using this application you can easily share and collaborate on office documents. This application uses strong and very long random "Session IDs" to limit access to specific resources. Knowledge of this ID allows...

Paper: NetFlow Data De-Anonymizes Tor Users

Tor Project leaders are trying to rein in concerns about an academic paper describing an end-to-end traffic correlation attack that could be used by a well-funded attacker such as a nation state to de-anonymize traffic on Tor. Executive director Roger Dingledine points out that the researchers...

Axway Secure Transport 5.1 SP2 - Arbitrary File Upload (via Cross-Site Request Forgery)

function submitRequest var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest; xhr.open"POST", "https://sftp.example.org/api/v1.0/files/", true; xhr.setRequestHeader"Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8"; xhr.setRequestHeader...

CoreGraphics Information Disclosure - CVE-2014-4378

This article explores the exploitability of MobileSafari on IOS 7.1.x. Using a crafted PDF file as an HTML image makes it possible to leak information about the memory layout to the browser Javascript interpreter. Apple CoreGraphics library fails to validate input when parsing the colorspace...

Ribose Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

The Ribose Online Social Collaboration Platform suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability. Vulnerability: CSRF Attack on Ribose Online Social Collaboration Platform Date: 13/08/2014 Author: JoeV Vendor: www.ribose.com Tested on: Windows 7 Description: A CSRF attack forces a logged-o...