CVE-2021-4234

OpenVPN Access Server 2.10 and earlier are affected by a vulnerability where the server resends multiple packets in response to a client-sent reset, which the client does not respond to, enabling a limited amplification attack. The issue is documented in CVE-2021-4234 with a HIGH impact on availa...

CVE-2021-4234

OpenVPN Access Server 2.10 and prior versions are susceptible to resending multiple packets in a response to a reset packet sent from the client which the client again does not respond to, resulting in a limited amplification attack...

PT-2022-11589

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenVPN Access Server versions 2.10 and prior Description The issue allows for a limited amplification attack by resending multiple packets in response to a reset packet sent from the client, which the client does not respond to. Recommendatio...

OpenVPN 安全漏洞

OpenVPN is a software package for creating encrypted tunnels for Virtual Private Networks VPNs from US-based OpenVPN, which uses the OpenSSL library to encrypt data and control information, and allows created VPNs to be authenticated using public keys, electronic certificates, or...

Record breaking HTTPS DDoS attack

Last week, Cloudflare blocked the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record. The attack amassed some 26 million requests per second rps. The previous record for a HTTPS DDoS attack was 15.3 million rps. The attack targeted an unnamed Cloudflare customer and originated mostly from Cloud Service Provider...

“Downthem” DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison

A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites. The user...

GHSA-GPXV-776P-7GC7 Jenkins vulnerable to UDP amplification reflection attack

Jenkins 2.218 and earlier, LTS 2.204.1 and earlier supports two network discovery services UDP multicast/broadcast and DNS multicast by default. The UDP multicast/broadcast service can be used in an amplification reflection attack, as very few bytes sent to the respective endpoint result in much...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2014-0052)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2021-23937

A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an internal DNS server or to...

CVE-2021-23937

A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an internal DNS server or to...

Design/Logic Flaw

A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an internal DNS server or to...

CVE-2021-23937 DNS proxy and possible amplification attack

A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an internal DNS server or to...

CVE-2021-23937: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

A DNS proxy and possible amplification attack vulnerability in WebClientInfo of Apache Wicket allows an attacker to trigger arbitrary DNS lookups from the server when the X-Forwarded-For header is not properly sanitized. This DNS lookup can be engineered to overload an internal DNS server or to...

“Huge upsurge” in DDoS attacks during pandemic

Researchers at Netscout have released a report analyzing the malicious internet traffic of 2020 and comparing it to the years before. Some of the results were as expected: Brute-forcing credentials and more targeting towards internet-connected devices were foreseeable and have been discussed at...

Cybercriminals Now Using Plex Media Servers to Amplify DDoS Attacks

A new distributed denial-of-service attack DDoS vector has ensnared Plex Media Server systems to amplify malicious traffic against targets to take them offline. "Plex's startup processes unintentionally expose a Plex UPnP-enabled service registration responder to the general Internet, where it ca...

USN-4374-1: Unbound vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity Medium Vendor Canonical Ubuntu Versions Affected Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 Description Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an amplification attack directed at a target...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : Unbound vulnerabilities (USN-4374-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4374-1 advisory. Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4374-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-4374-1: Unbound vulnerabilities

Lior Shafir, Yehuda Afek, and Anat Bremler-Barr discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain queries. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform an amplification attack directed at a target. CVE-2020-12662 It was discovered that Unbound incorrectly handled certain malformed answers....

Vulnerabilities fixed in BIND

BIND has fixed several vulnerabilities that could allow a malicious potentially capable of causing a denial-of-service DoS cause. A DoS attack exploiting the vulnerability with attribute CVE-2020-8617, targets DNS clients. The vulnerability with attribute CVE-2020-8616 involves a new method for...