Threat Source Newsletter (April 1, 2021)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We hope you’re enjoying Cisco Live this week and only reading this after you’ve caught up on your sessions for the day. No April Fool’s jokes here thankfully — we are just excited to tell you that applications... This is only the...

How to Vaccinate Against the Poor Password Policy Pandemic

Data breaches remain a constant threat, and no industry or organization is immune from the risks. From Fortune 500 companies to startups, password-related breaches continue to spread seemingly unchecked. As a result of the volume of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, hackers now have acce...

Binary Vulnerability in Microsoft DirectComposition

DirectComposition is a graphical interface rendering framework introduced by Microsoft in the kernel since Windows 8, mainly used for rendering windows, interfaces and animations of UWP applications. A binary vulnerability exists in Microsoft DirectComposition, which can be exploited by attackers...

Back in a Bit: Attacker Use of the Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service

In this blog post we will describe: How attackers use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS Forensic techniques for detecting attacker activity with data format specifications Public release of the BitsParser tool A real-world example of malware using BITS persistence --- Introduction...

Netty 环境问题漏洞

Netty is a non-blocking I/O client-server framework from the Netty community that is primarily used to develop Java web applications such as protocol servers and clients. Netty suffers from an environment issue vulnerability which leads to request smuggling...

CVE-2021-27887

Cross-site Scripting XSS vulnerability in the main dashboard of Ellipse APM versions allows an authenticated user or integrated application to inject malicious data into the application that can then be executed in a victim’s browser. This issue affects: Hitachi ABB Power Grids Ellipse APM 5.3...

Server classes and resources exposure in OSGi applications using Vaadin 12-14 and 19

Vulnerability in OSGi integration in com.vaadin:flow-server versions 1.2.0 through 2.4.7 Vaadin 12.0.0 through 14.4.9, and 6.0.0 through 6.0.1 Vaadin 19.0.0 allows attacker to access application classes and resources on the server via crafted HTTP request. See CWE-402: Transmission of Private...

Fedora: Security Advisory for dotnet3.1 (FEDORA-2021-3da33cdc80)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Fedora: Security Advisory for dotnet5.0 (FEDORA-2021-138728e59b)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities found in Axis.jar V1.x may affect IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications

Summary IBM Content Collector for SAP Applications may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities found in Axis.jar V1.x Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-8032 DESCRIPTION: Apache Axis is vulnerable to cross-site scripting, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the default...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: dotnet5.0-5.0.104-1.fc32

.NET is a fast, lightweight and modular platform for creating cross platform applications that work on Linux, macOS and Windows. It particularly focuses on creating console applications, web applications and micro-services. .NET contains a runtime conforming to .NET Standards a set of framework...

Manufacturing's Cloud Migration Opens Door to Major Cyber-Risk

Web-facing applications continue to be one of the highest security risks present for organizations, with more than 40 percent of them actively leaking data in a way that can have a ripple affect across businesses and their partners, research has found. Moreover, manufacturing is particularly...

Information_Collection_Handbook

The repository is an information collection handbook for penetration testing and source code analysis. It contains a collection of tools and resources for gathering information about a target, including domain name information, application information, and source code analysis. The repository...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.1.5 security and bug fix update

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.1.5 General Availability release images, which fix several bugs and security issues. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

XWiki Platform SQL Injection Vulnerability

Xwiki Platform is a Wiki platform for creating Web collaboration applications from the French company Xwiki. XWiki Platform is vulnerable to SQL injection, which can be exploited by attackers to inject SQL statements for execution...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: dotnet5.0-5.0.104-1.fc33

.NET is a fast, lightweight and modular platform for creating cross platform applications that work on Linux, macOS and Windows. It particularly focuses on creating console applications, web applications and micro-services. .NET contains a runtime conforming to .NET Standards a set of framework...

Elodea Event Collector 4.9.3 - 'ElodeaEventCollectorService' Unquoted Service Path

Exploit Title: Elodea Event Collector 4.9.3 - 'ElodeaEventCollectorService' Unquoted Service Path Discovery by: Alan Mondragon Discovery Date: 2021-03-23 Vendor Homepage: https://eventlogxp.com/ Software Links : https://eventlogxp.com/ Tested Version: Version: 4.9.3 Vulnerability Type: Unquoted...

Code injection

In intelpmudrainpebsnhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8 on some Haswell CPUs, userspace applications such as perf-fuzzer can cause a system crash because the PEBS status in a PEBS record is mishandled, aka CID-d88d05a9e0b6...

CVE-2021-28971

In intelpmudrainpebsnhm in arch/x86/events/intel/ds.c in the Linux kernel through 5.11.8 on some Haswell CPUs, userspace applications such as perf-fuzzer can cause a system crash because the PEBS status in a PEBS record is mishandled, aka CID-d88d05a9e0b6...

Adobe Fixes Critical ColdFusion Flaw in Emergency Update

In an unscheduled security update, Adobe is warning of a critical security flaw in its ColdFusion platform, used for building web applications. The security alert comes two weeks after Adobe’s regularly-scheduled updates. During these updates, the tech company issued patches for a slew of critica...