A week in security (November 23 – November 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we talked with Chris Boyd about charities that track you online. We also looked back at Zoom, and wondered whether its any safer months after its first vulnerability was reported. We talked about how Apples security is hampering the detection of potentially unwante...

GWTMap - Tool to help map the attack surface of Google Web Toolkit

GWTMap is a tool to help map the attack surface of Google Web Toolkit GWT based applications. The purpose of this tool is to facilitate the extraction of any service method endpoints buried within a modern GWT application's obfuscated client-side code, and attempt to generate example GWT-RPC...

Built-in Runtime Security for Containers

Security teams struggle with visibility into behaviors inside their running containers. Qualys is today announcing general availability of Container Runtime Security CRS to provide industry-leading visibility for running containers using an approach that is container-engine agnostic and layered...

kernel: mounting a crafted ext4 filesystem image, performing some operations, and unmounting can lead to a use-after-free in ext4_put_super in fs/ext4/super.c

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ext4unlink function. An attacker could corrupt memory or escalate privileges when deleting a file from a recently unmounted specially crafted ext4 filesystem, including local, USB, and iSCSI...

Client-Side Protection is Key to Web Application Security

The Open Web Application Security Project OWASP Foundation defines script attacks as a "type of injection in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted websites."1 From the perspective of the user, malicious code is coming from trusted websites. Recently popularized by...

GitDorker - A Tool To Scrape Secrets From GitHub Through Usage Of A Large Repository Of Dorks

GitDorker is a tool that utilizes the GitHub Search API and an extensive list of GitHub dorks that I've compiled from various sources to provide an overview of sensitive information stored on github given a search query. The Primary purpose of GitDorker is to provide the user with a clean and...

Getting around the cybersecurity talent shortage

More remote workers mean larger attack surfaces, and as cyber criminals take advantage of the rush to provision a remote workforce, the pain of the cybersecurity professionals shortage has become acute. Last year, the ISC2 Workforce Study identified a shortage of 561,000 cybersecurity professiona...

Insecure RDP

There are active attack campaigns as of October 2020 targeting RDP servers without multi-factor authentication enabled. Recent assessments: zeroSteiner at October 09, 2020 6:36pm UTC reported: Over the past couple of years 2018-2020 attacks against RDP have become more and more common. Recent...

Applied ThreadFix: Seeding Your Application Portfolio with OWASP Amass

OWASP Amass is a great tool for asset discovery and enterprise attack surface mapping. It pulls data from a number of different data sources and identifies potential hosts and applications associated with organizations, domains, IP CIDRs and other identifiers. As we have noted, having a solid...

Applied ThreadFix: Application Portfolio Tracking

Asset management is a serious issue across the information security space. A very common challenge we see for organizations running an application security program is just getting an idea of what applications they have available and what infrastructure has been deployed to support them. You cant...

CVE-2020-7358 Code Injection in Rapid7 AppSpider Pro Installer

In AppSpider installer versions prior to 7.2.126, the AppSpider installer calls an executable which can be placed in the appropriate directory by an attacker with access to the local machine. This would prevent the installer from distinguishing between a valid executable called during an...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users

In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access ZTA. Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and...

Attacking the Qualcomm Adreno GPU

Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero When writing an Android exploit, breaking out of the application sandbox is often a key step. There are a wide range of remote attacks that give you code execution with the privileges of an application like the browser or a messaging application, but a sandbox...

Observable Timing Discrepancy in OpenMage LTS

Impact This vulnerability allows to circumvent the formkey protection in the Admin Interface and increases the attack surface for Cross Site Request Forgery attacks Patches The latest OpenMage Versions up from 19.4.6 and 20.0.2 have this Issue solved References Related to Adobes CVE-2020-9690...

‘Insight’ into Home Automation Reveals Vulnerability in Simple IoT Product

ARCHIVED STORY ‘Insight’ into Home Automation Reveals Vulnerability in Simple IoT Product By Douglas McKee · August 18, 2020 Eoin Carroll, Charles McFarland, Kevin McGrath, and Mark Bereza contributed to this report. The Internet of Things promises to make our lives easier. Want to remotely turn...

Design/Logic Flaw

njs through 0.4.3, used in NGINX, allows control-flow hijack in njsvalueproperty in njsvalue.c. NOTE: the vendor considers the issue to be "fluff" in the NGINX use case because there is no remote attack surface...

MMS Exploit Part 3: Constructing the Memory Corruption Primitives

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero This post is the third of a multi-part series capturing my journey from discovering a vulnerable little-known Samsung image codec, to completing a remote zero-click MMS attack that worked on the latest Samsung flagship devices. New posts will be published a...

MMS Exploit Part 2: Effective Fuzzing of the Qmage Codec

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero This post is the second of a multi-part series capturing my journey from discovering a vulnerable little-known Samsung image codec, to completing a remote zero-click MMS attack that worked on the latest Samsung flagship devices. New posts will be published ...

Command injection

In codecov npm package before version 3.7.1 the upload method has a command injection vulnerability. Clients of the codecov-node library are unlikely to be aware of this, so they might unwittingly write code that contains a vulnerability. A similar CVE CVE-2020-7597 for GHSA-5q88-cjfq-g2mh was...

MMS Exploit Part 1: Introduction to the Samsung Qmage Codec and Remote Attack Surface

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero This post is the first of a multi-part series capturing my journey from discovering a vulnerable little-known Samsung image codec, to completing a remote zero-click MMS attack that worked on the latest Samsung flagship devices. New posts will be published a...