CVE-2012-5483

tools/sampledata.sh in OpenStack Keystone 2012.1.3, when access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Amazon EC2 is configured, uses world-readable permissions for /etc/keystone/ec2rc, which allows local users to obtain access to EC2 services by reading administrative access and secret values from this...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-keystone security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated openstack-keystone packages that fix two security issues, multiple bugs, and add enhancements are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Essex. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores,...

CVE-2012-5817

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof...

Code injection

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof...

CVE-2012-5817: Improper Certificate Validation

Codehaus XFire 1.2.6 and earlier, as used in the Amazon EC2 API Tools Java library and other products, does not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof...

Eucalyptus Cloud Controller Console Detection

The web console for Eucalyptus Cloud Controller, a Java application that implements an interface compatible with Amazon's EC2, was found on the remote host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid61610; scriptversion"1.3"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/11/25";...

Tor Project Sets Up Cloud Bridge Project on Amazon EC2

The Tor Project has started a new system designed to help people start and run Tor bridges in the cloud using Amazon’s EC2 platform. The Tor Cloud runs on Amazon’s new micro-instance tier that lets people run instances for free for the first year. Tor is used by people around the world to help...

Ice IX, the First Crimeware Based on the Leaked ZeuS Sources

After rumors about the supposed merger between SpyEye and ZeuS, and the public release of the source of the latter, it was logical that the range of possibilities opened up even more for new cybercriminals into the ecosystem of crimeware. Consistent with this, it was only a matter of time for the...

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 !

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 ! The hackers who breached the security of Sony's PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a sever from...

The Cloud Makes Short Work Of Strong Encryption

A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon’s EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into...

Researchers Demo DDoS Attacks in the Cloud

Researchers at Def Con created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon’s EC2 and used a homemade program to attack the network of a client — a small business that wanted its connectivity tested. They took the company off the Internet. The price? Six dollars. Read the full article. Dark...