██████: Remote Code Execution on Proxy Service (as root)

The proxy service used to provide researchers with access to certain programs on ██████ allows access to AWS's Metadata API. This Metadata API in turn is configured to expose temporary AWS access credentials for the AWS EC2 Run Command role. When this role is assumed by an AWS client e.g. the CLI...

Visit Wallarm at AWS re:Invent 2017

Wallarm will present its Application Security solutions at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas November 27 through December 1st. As a leading provider of AI-driven application security, Wallarm is helping customers running on AWS to implement application security. Wallarm solutions includes high-performan...

RHEL 6 / 7 : eap7-jboss-ec2-eap (RHSA-2017:2811)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2811 advisory. The eap7-jboss-ec2-eap packages provide scripts for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform running on the Amazon Web Services AWS...

Chris Vickery on Amazon S3 Data Leaks

Mike Mimoso talks to Chris Vickery of UpGuard of the recent rash of Amazon S3 data leaks. Vickery uncovers of the commonalities among these leaks, some of which include AWS misconfigurations and mismanagement of third-party partner relationships. Download: ChrisVickeryonAmazonS3DataLeaks.mp3...

Design/Logic Flaw

DenyAll WAF before 6.4.1 allows unauthenticated remote command execution via TCP port 3001 because shell metacharacters can be inserted into the type parameter to the tailDateFile function in /webservices/stream/tail.php. An iToken authentication parameter is required but can be obtained by...

Authentication flaw

DenyAll WAF before 6.4.1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain authentication information by making a typeOf=debug request to /webservices/download/index.php, and then reading the iToken field in the reply. This affects DenyAll i-Suite LTS 5.5.0 through 5.5.12, i-Suite 5.6, Web...

CVE-2017-14706

DenyAll WAF before 6.4.1 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to obtain authentication information by making a typeOf=debug request to /webservices/download/index.php, and then reading the iToken field in the reply. This affects DenyAll i-Suite LTS 5.5.0 through 5.5.12, i-Suite 5.6, Web...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3420-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: The default umask value is set to 022 to address a privilege escalation security vulnerability. Affected Packages: aws-cfn-bootstrap Issue Correction: Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap or yum update --advisory ALAS-2017-895 to update your system. 1. Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3

In what’s almost felt like an epidemic over the last few weeks, yet another slew of sensitive information—600 gigabytes of files—was recently left exposed on two cloud repositories, accessible to anyone. The repositories, owned by BroadSoft, a global communication software and service provider,...

Military Contractor's Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3

Thousands of resumes and job applications containing the personal information of U.S. veterans, many with top secret clearances, and law enforcement officers were left exposed in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, continuing a trend where poorly configured cloud-storage services are putting people...

Amazon Linux AMI : aws-cfn-bootstrap (ALAS-2017-886)

New optional parameter 'umask' introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2017-886. include"compat.inc"; if...

VMworld 2017 Recap

VMware featured a number of great announcements at VMworld 2017 including VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware customers can now run new or existing virtualized workloads in the AWS cloud while maintaining their current VMware tools and skill sets. This announcement provides an important shift in the hybr...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: New optional parameter "umask" introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. The Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation bootstrap tools package aka aws-cfn-bootstrap before 1.4-19.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3405-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Extend Protection to VMWare Cloud on AWS with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™

On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called 'VMware Cloud on AWS' allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining...

BinaryAlert - Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

On the S3 Leaks, Zerodium's Messaging App Bounties, ROPEMAKER, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the recent AWS S3 leaks, Zerodium’s bounty on secure messaging app zero days, Ropemaker, and cobot vulnerabilities. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust252017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes: Industrial Cobots Might Be The...