Let's Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years

Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority CA from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group ISRG, has said it's issued a billion certificates since its launch in 2015. The CA issued its first certificate in September 2015, before eventually reaching 100 million...

Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program

The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigatio...

How I Avoided a Recruiter Scam

Recruitment scams are a serious, but often overlooked risk to job seekers. Those responsible for these schemes often play on the victim's stress levels or professional ego, by using authority to offer something that could be life changing, often with large salaries. I've personally experienced a...

CVE-2019-19452

A buffer overflow was found in Patriot Viper RGB through 1.1 when processing IoControlCode 0x80102040. Local attackers including low integrity processes can exploit this to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges...

Buffer overflow

A buffer overflow was found in Patriot Viper RGB through 1.1 when processing IoControlCode 0x80102040. Local attackers including low integrity processes can exploit this to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges...

CVE-2019-19452

CVE-2019-19452 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in the Patriot Viper RGB driver (version 1.1 and earlier) when processing IOCTL 0x80102040. Local attackers (including low integrity processes) can exploit this to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges. Public advisories from CoreLabs (CORE-202...

CVE-2019-19452

A buffer overflow was found in Patriot Viper RGB through 1.1 when processing IoControlCode 0x80102040. Local attackers including low integrity processes can exploit this to gain NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges. Recent assessments: FULLSHADE at April 21, 2020 3:30pm UTC reported: Overview A...

Gaza Cybergang targeting Palestinian authority figures

By Sudais Asif One of the groups behind the attack is MoleRATs which is known to be a part of the Gaza Cybergang and has been operating since 2012. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Gaza Cybergang targeting Palestinian authority figures...

Ricoh Driver - Privilege Escalation Exploit

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule 'Ricoh Driver Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q Various Ricoh printer drivers allow escalation of privilege...

Ricoh Driver - Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule 'Ricoh Driver Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q Various Ricoh printer drivers allow escalation of privilege...

Ricoh Driver Privilege Escalation

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule 'Ricoh Driver Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q Various Ricoh printer drivers allow escalation of privilege...

CVE-2020-1721

A flaw was found in the Key Recovery Authority KRA Agent Service where it did not properly sanitize the recovery ID during a key recovery request, enabling a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. An attacker could trick an authenticated victim into executing specially crafted Javascri...

CVE-2019-10179

It was found that the Key Recovery Authority KRA Agent Service did not properly sanitize recovery request search page, enabling a Reflected Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. An attacker could trick an authenticated victim into executing specially crafted Javascript code...

CVE-2016-1000105

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

ALPINE-CVE-2014-3230

The libwww-perl LWP::Protocol::https module 6.04 through 6.06 for Perl, when using IO::Socket::SSL as the SSL socket class, allows attackers to disable server certificate validation via the 1 HTTPSCADIR or 2 HTTPSCAFILE environment variable...

Privilege escalation

A Local Privilege Escalation issue was discovered in Avast Secure Browser 76.0.1659.101. The vulnerability is due to an insecure ACL set by the AvastBrowserUpdate.exe which is running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM when AvastSecureBrowser.exe checks for new updates. When the update check is triggered, th...

CVE-2019-17190

CVE-2019-17190 affects Avast Secure Browser 76.0.1659.101. The issue is an insecure ACL on Update.ini in %PROGRAMDATA%\Avast Software\Browser\Update, altered by AvastBrowserUpdate.exe running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM during update checks. A low-privileged user can create a hard link Update.ini to a...

CVE-2019-17190

A Local Privilege Escalation issue was discovered in Avast Secure Browser 76.0.1659.101. The vulnerability is due to an insecure ACL set by the AvastBrowserUpdate.exe which is running as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM when AvastSecureBrowser.exe checks for new updates. When the update check is triggered, th...

CVE-2019-19893

In IXP EasyInstall 6.2.13723, there is Directory Traversal on TCP port 8000 via the Engine Service by an unauthenticated attacker, who can access the server's filesystem with the access rights of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM...

CVE-2019-19896

In IXP EasyInstall 6.2.13723, there is Remote Code Execution via weak permissions on the Engine Service share. The default file permissions of the IXP$ share on the server allows modification of directories and files e.g., bat-scripts, which allows execution of code in the context of NT...