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...

NSA on Securing VPNs

The NSA's Central Security Service -- that's the part that's supposed to work on defense -- has released two documents a full and an abridged version on securing virtual private networks. Some of it is basic, but it contains good information. Maintaining a secure VPN tunnel can be complex and...

Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java

Summary On July 13, 2020 EST, SAP released a security update to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287, affecting the SAP NetWeaver Application Server AS Java component LM Configuration Wizard. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through the Hypertext Transfer...

How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – part 1 of 3

Kubernetes clusters enable an organization to easily take advantage of containerization. While this is a huge asset, it also creates security issues. Many organizations lack visibility into the applications within their Kubernetes cluster and their attack surface. Within a Kubernetes cluster, an...

Reduce the Attack Surface of Your Container Images

Follow along as Chuck Losh, Solutions Architect, walks through a new way of thinking in how to construct distroless images from Google, using an example of a multi-stage Dockerfile method...

Long Tail Analysis: A New Hope in the Cybercrime Battle

Our hyper-connected world and its ever-faster network speeds have resulted in mountains of diverse data that needs to be processed. It has also resulted in an ever-expanding attack surface, requiring cybersecurity solutions to scale like never before. These days, scale is about more than traffic...

The Windows 7 Postmortem: What’s at Stake

In January 2020, Microsoft officially ended its extended support and discontinued patching of Windows 7. Despite the long lead time and repeated reminders, numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic have shown a slight uptick in Windows 7 deployments. The recent estimates show that more than 26 percent ...

Securing Smart Manufacturing

“Alexa, turn on the TV.” ”Get it yourself.” This nightmare scenario could play out millions of times unless people take steps to protect their IoT devices. The situation is even worse in industrial settings. Smart manufacturing, that is, Industry 4.0, relies on tight integration between IT system...

Buffer overflow vulnerability in GE control system ACTIVEX control (CNVD-2020-26342)

General Electric GE is a global digital industrial company that creates software-defined machines that are connected, responsive and predictive to transform traditional industries. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ACTIVEX control of the GE control system, which can be exploited by an...