Setting secure defaults on AWS and avoiding misconfigurations

Wiz cloud security researcher, Scott Piper, suggests measures organizations can adopt to ensure secure defaults on AWS and improve their security posture...

GHSA-M2MJ-PR4F-H9JP TorchServe ZipSlip

Impact Using the model/workflow management API, there is a chance of uploading potentially harmful archives that contain files that are extracted to any location on the filesystem that is within the process permissions. Leveraging this issue could aid third-party actors in hiding harmful code in...

GHSA-475V-PQ2G-FP9G s2n-quic potential denial of service via crafted stream frames

Impact An issue in s2n-quic could result in unnecessary resource utilization when peers open streams beyond advertised limits. Impacted versions: = v1.30.0. Patches The patch is included in v1.31.0 1. Workarounds There is no workaround. Applications using s2n-quic should upgrade to the most recen...

s2n-quic potential denial of service via crafted stream frames

Impact An issue in s2n-quic could result in unnecessary resource utilization when peers open streams beyond advertised limits. Impacted versions: = v1.30.0. Patches The patch is included in v1.31.0 1. Workarounds There is no workaround. Applications using s2n-quic should upgrade to the most recen...

GHSA-8FXR-QFR9-P34W TorchServe Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability

Impact Remote Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF Issue: TorchServe default configuration lacks proper input validation, enabling third parties to invoke remote HTTP download requests and write files to the disk. This issue could be taken advantage of to compromise the integrity of the system and...

TorchServe Server-Side Request Forgery vulnerability

Impact Remote Server-Side Request Forgery SSRF Issue: TorchServe default configuration lacks proper input validation, enabling third parties to invoke remote HTTP download requests and write files to the disk. This issue could be taken advantage of to compromise the integrity of the system and...

TorchServe Pre-Auth Remote Code Execution

Impact Use of Open Source Library potentially exposed to RCE Issue: Use of a version of the SnakeYAML v1.31 open source library with multiple issues that potentially exposes the user to unsafe deserialization of Java objects. This could allow third parties to execute arbitrary code on the target...

CVE-2022-2582 Exposure of unencrypted plaintext hash in github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go

The AWS S3 Crypto SDK sends an unencrypted hash of the plaintext alongside the ciphertext as a metadata field. This hash can be used to brute force the plaintext, if the hash is readable to the attacker. AWS now blocks this metadata field, but older SDK versions still send it...

Wiz integrates with AWS Security Hub to help you better manage your AWS security posture

New integration enables AWS customers to send Wiz security issues detected in AWS resources to Security Hub...

InsightIDR Launches Integration With New AWS Security Data Lake Service

It has been an action-packed day at AWS re:Invent. For security professionals, one of the most exciting announcements has to be the launch of Amazon Security Lake. We see a lot of potential for this new service, which is why Rapid7 is proud to announce the immediate availability of an integration...

Aligning to AWS Foundational Security Best Practices With InsightCloudSec

Written by Ryan Blanchard and James Alaniz When an organization is moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud or expanding with net-new investment, one of the hardest tasks for the security team is to identify and establish the proper security policies and controls to keep their cloud environmen...

com.amazon.redshift:redshift-jdbc42 vulnerable to remote command execution

Impact A potential remote command execution issue exists within redshift-jdbc42 versions 2.1.0.7 and below. When plugins are used with the driver, it instantiates plugin instances based on Java class names provided via the sslhostnameverifier, socketFactory, sslfactory, and sslpasswordcallback...

What We’re Looking Forward to at AWS re:Inforce

AWS re:Inforce 2022 starts tomorrow — Tuesday, July 26th — and we couldn't be more excited to gather with the tech, cloud, and security communities in our home city of Boston. Here's a sneak peek of the highlights to come at re:Inforce and what we're looking forward to the most this Tuesday and...

Former Amazon Employee Found Guilty in 2019 Capital One Data Breach

A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, who operated under the online alias "erratic" and worked for the tech...

Hcltm - Documenting Your Threat Models With HCL

Threat Modeling with HCL Overview There are many different ways in which a threat model can be documented. From a simple text file, to more in-depth word documents, to fully instrumented threat models in a centralised solution. Two of the most valuable attributes of a threat model are being able ...

Slyther - AWS Security Tool

Slyther is AWS Security tool to check read/write/delete access for S3 buckets Requirements aws-cli Installation pip3 install -r requirements.txt Usage example python3 slyther.py -b flaws.cloud Release History 0.0.3 Added option to check if aws-cli is installed or not 0.0.2 Added option to check...

Airspan Networks Mimosa

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 10.0 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Airspan Networks Equipment: Mimosa by Airspan product line Vulnerabilities: Improper Authorization, Incorrect Authorization, Server-side Request Forgery, SQL Injection, Deserialization of Untrusted...

Protection from Malware and AWS Bucket Leaks

You can’t control the weather. But you can safeguard your downstream infrastructure investment...

11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment

Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...

Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard

From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what youre paying for is security. Right; its part of what we sell. Lets say a prospective customer comes to AWS. They say, "I like pay-as-you-go pricing. Tell me more about that." We say, "Okay, heres h...