Open-Source API Firewall Unveils New Feature: Default Deny Lists for Compromised API Tokens and Cookies

Discovering and securing any API is one of the most difficult challenges for developers. The API security landscape is constantly evolving, with new threats and vulnerabilities emerging at a rapid pace. Since commercial API security solutions can be expensive for some organizations especially...

10 Years Journey into API Security Vulnerabilities with Ivan, the CEO of Wallarm

Ivan Novikov, CEO at Wallarm, is an API security expert, bug hunter, security researcher, and blackhat speaker with 24 years of experience in the cybersecurity field. He spent decades in this industry and witnessed exploits as well as growth. Read ahead to understand Ivan’s API Security journey a...

OWASP Top-10 2022: Forecast Based on Statistics

For tech innovators and security experts, what OWASP Top-10 says or predicts is much attention-worthy as this globally recognized document guide about the hidden and damage-causing security threats. As the year 2022 has begun, the people willing to learn about the latest security trends and...

API Security: Best Practices for a Changing Attack Surface

API usage is skyrocketing. According to the latest State of the API Report, API requests increased by 56% last year to a total of 855 million, and Google says the growth isn’t expected to slow any time soon. APIs – short for application programming interfaces – are a critical component of how...

Malicious code in ffdc-api-security (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware f0ae2f65c912b2a778ebfc3529511c45cd101efb4fe7d57112acd1ecb2804b78 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

MAL-2022-3019 Malicious code in ffdc-api-security (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware f0ae2f65c912b2a778ebfc3529511c45cd101efb4fe7d57112acd1ecb2804b78 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

VAmPI - Vulnerable REST API With OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities For Security Testing

The Vulnerable API Based on OpenAPI 3 VAmPI is a vulnerable API made with Flask and it includes vulnerabilities from the OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities for APIs. It was created as I wanted a vulnerable API to evaluate the efficiency of tools used to detect security issues in APIs. It includes a...

Improper Access Control in Crabtyper API

Description The API program allows any user to create languages and snippets, as well as delete them. This allows a malicious actor to add offensive snippets which could appear to any user, and also allows anyone to completely take down the service by removing all snippets. This is due to...

dotCMS Shell Upload

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'DotCMS RCE via Arbitrary File Upload.', 'Description' = %q When files are uploaded into dotCMS via the content API, but before they become conten...

LinkedIn: Campaign Account Balance and History Disclosed in API Response

During the security assessment of the application, it has been observed that server-side authorization checks are not implemented on the 'GET /campaign-manager-api/campaignManagerAccounts/:campaignId/accountCredits?q=account' HTTP request. As a result, an attacker can fetch the campaign wallet...

RSAC 2022 – The Year of API Security

Not only is RSAC back in person, but API security is coming to the forefront. Wallarm, the G2 leader in Application Security, is thrilled to be back at RSAC where we will show off all of our new API Security capabilities and tools since we last saw everyone in 2020. Highlights of What’s New:...

GHSA-33XW-X3PR-RVQJ Wikimedia Potential DOS due to slow WatchedItemStore::countVisitingWatchersMultiple

Wikimedia MediaWiki 1.27.0 through 1.32.1 might allow DoS. Passing invalid titles to the API could cause a DoS by querying the entire watchlist table. Fixed in 1.32.2, 1.31.2, 1.30.2 and 1.27.6...

Jenkins ElectricFlow Plugin is vulnerable to reflected cross site scripting vulnerability

The configuration forms of various post-build steps contributed by CloudBees CD Plugin were vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This allowed attackers able to control the output of connected ElectricFlow servers' APIs to inject arbitrary HTML and JavaScript into the configuration form. CloudBees ...

Containous Traefik Exposes Password Hashes

types/types.go in Containous Traefik 1.7.x through 1.7.11, when the --api flag is used and the API is publicly reachable and exposed without sufficient access control which is contrary to the API documentation, allows remote authenticated users to discover password hashes by reading the Basic HTT...

Gitea Allows 1FA Even for 2FA-Enrolled Accounts

Gitea before 1.8.0 allows 1FA for user accounts that have completed 2FA enrollment. If a user's credentials are known, then an attacker could send them to the API without requiring the 2FA one-time password...

Blogifier does not properly restrict APIs

Blogifier 2.3 before 2019-05-11 does not properly restrict APIs, as demonstrated by missing checks for .. in a pathname. The issue is patched in the 2.4 branch, but 2.5.5 is the lowest available patched version on https://www.nuget.org/packages/Blogifier.Core...

Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer in Strapi

An authenticated user with access to the Strapi admin panel can view private and sensitive data, such as email and password reset tokens, for API users if content types accessible to the authenticated user contain relationships to API users from:users-permissions. There are many scenarios in whic...

GHSA-P258-XMH3-72PV OpenStack Compute (Nova) allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via API requests

The Nova EC2 API security group implementation in OpenStack Compute Nova 2013.1 before 2013.2.4 and icehouse before icehouse-rc2 does not enforce RBAC policies for 1 addrules, 2 removerules, 3 destroy, and other unspecified methods in compute/api.py when using non-default policies, which allows...

Jenkins Exposes Sensitive Information via API URL

The API URL computer/master/api/xml in Jenkins before 2.3 and LTS before 1.651.2 allows remote authenticated users with extended read permission for the master node to obtain sensitive information about the global configuration via unspecified vectors...

Missing permission checks in Jenkins Periodic Backup Plugin allow every user to change settings

The Periodic Backup Plugin did not perform any permission checks, allowing any user with Overall/Read access to change its settings, trigger backups, restore backups, download backups, and also delete all previous backups via log rotation. Additionally, the plugin was not requiring requests to it...