Denial of service

The doPayouts function of the smart contract implementation for MegaCryptoPolis, an Ethereum game, has a Denial of Service vulnerability. If a smart contract that has a fallback function always causing exceptions buys a land, users cannot buy lands near that contract's land, because those purchas...

D-Link, Dasan Routers Under Attack In Yet Another Assault

Unpatched D-Link and Dasan GPON router vulnerabilities are being targeted by hackers attempting to build a botnet army, according to research published Friday by eSentire Threat Intelligence. Researchers observed on Thursday a massive uptick in exploit attempts from over 3,000 different source IP...

Brute Force Attacks

Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity is vulnerable to brute force attacks. The application does not validate whether the lockout limit for incorrect login attempts has been reached, allowing a malicious user to be able to conduct a brute force attack...

CVE-2018-8171

A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated, aka "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.2...

CVE-2018-8171

A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated, aka "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.2...

CVE-2018-8171

A Security Feature Bypass vulnerability exists in ASP.NET when the number of incorrect login attempts is not validated, aka "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability." This affects ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core 1.1, ASP.NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET MVC 5.2...

Microsoft Edge CVE-2018-8236 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft Edge Recommendations...

PT-2018-3888 · D Link · D-Link Dir-895L/R +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: D-Link DIR-890L versions 1.21B02beta01 and earlier D-Link DIR-885L/R versions 1.21B03beta01 and earlier D-Link DIR-895L/R versions 1.21B04beta04 and earlier Description: The issue is related to the predictability of the "/docs/captcha...

Monstra CMS Security Bypass Vulnerability

Monstra CMS is a lightweight PHP-based content management system CMS developed by Ukrainian software developer Sergey Romanenko. The system is easy to install and use, scalable and so on. A security vulnerability exists in the plugins/box/users/users.plugin.php file in Monstra CMS version 3.0.4. ...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

A week in security (May 28 – June 3)

Last week on Labs, we talked about the significance of SEO poisoning in the world of search marketing, blackmail attempts against financial institutions in Canada, voice command flaws in smart assistants, survey and potential phishing scams on Instagram, and the latest changes in Office 365. We...

Xxe

In SimpliSafe Original, the Base Station fails to detect tamper attempts: it does not send a notification if a physically proximate attacker removes the battery and external power...

CVE-2018-11400

In SimpliSafe Original, the Base Station fails to detect tamper attempts: it does not send a notification if a physically proximate attacker removes the battery and external power...

CVE-2018-11400

In SimpliSafe Original, the Base Station fails to detect tamper attempts: it does not send a notification if a physically proximate attacker removes the battery and external power...

Authentication Bypass

json-jwt is vulnerable to authentication bypasses. The library does not properly validate the GCM auth tag length, allowing a malicious user to require at most 256 attempts to forge a valid auth tag...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Vulnerabilities

Discovered by Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos Update 05/15/18: The CVE for TALOS-2018-0517 has been corrected below. Overview Today, Talos is releasing details of a new vulnerabilities within Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most popular and most feature-rich PDF reader. It...

Microsoft ChakraCore Scripting Engine CVE-2018-0943 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft ChakraCore is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft ChakraCore...

Part 2: The Dark Side of APIs

Ryan Barnett, Principal Security Researcher, Akamai Elad Shuster, Senior Security Researcher, Akamai During its research into Credential Abuse attack campaigns, Akamai's threat research team conducted an analysis of web logins to gain insights into how widespread the adoption of API-based logins ...

Microsoft Office CVE-2018-1007 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Office is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected Microsoft Office 2016 32-bit edition Microsoft Office 2016 64-bit edition Recommendations Run a...

Microsoft Windows CVE-2018-1013 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the affected application. Failed attacks will cause denial-of-service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 f...