Microsoft Windows - NPFS Symlink Security Feature Bypass/Elevation of Privilege/Dangerous Behavior

Windows: NPFS Symlink Security Feature Bypass/Elevation of Privilege/Dangerous Behavior Platform: Windows 10 1709 functionality not present prior to this version Class: Security Feature Bypass/Elevation of Privilege/Dangerous Behavior Summary: It’s possible to create NPFS symlinks as a low IL or...

Microsoft Windows - NPFS Symlink Security Feature BypassElevation of PrivilegeDangerous Behavior

Microsoft Windows - NPFS Symlink Security Feature BypassElevation of PrivilegeDangerous Behavior Windows: NPFS Symlink Security Feature Bypass/Elevation of Privilege/Dangerous Behavior Platform: Windows 10 1709 functionality not present prior to this version Class: Security Feature Bypass/Elevati...

Threat Round Up for Feb 9 - Feb 16

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between February 9 and February 16. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior...

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

How artificial intelligence stopped an Emotet outbreak

At 12:46 a.m. local time on February 3, a Windows 7 Pro customer in North Carolina became the first would-be victim of a new malware attack campaign for Trojan:Win32/Emotet. In the next 30 minutes, the campaign tried to attack over a thousand potential victims, all of whom were instantly and...

yara/dex_fuzzer: Crash in yr_object_set_string

Project: https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara.git Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=4773665418772480 Project: yara Fuzzer: libFuzzeryaradexfuzzer Fuzz target binary: dexfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanyara Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN READ Crash Address: 0x0000ef8d0fc2 Cra...

Overview of Petya, a rapid cyberattack

In the first blog post of this 3-part series, we introduced what rapid cyberattacks are and illustrated how they are different in terms of execution and outcome. Next, we will go into some more details on the Petya aka NotPetya attack. How Petya worked The Petya attack chain is well understood,...

GDPR and Breach Detection: How to Ask the Right Questions to Meet the GDPR Breach Notification Rule

It is now less than four months before the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective. This new data regulation of the European Union is designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data collected by business around the world. It aims to unify dat...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15706

As part of the fix for bug 61201, the documentation for Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M22 to 9.0.1, 8.5.16 to 8.5.23, 8.0.45 to 8.0.47 and 7.0.79 to 7.0.82 included an updated description of the search algorithm used by the CGI Servlet to identify which script to execute. The update was not correct. As a...

Fedora 26 : wordpress (2018-19c693fd9a)

Upstream announcement : WordPress 4.9.2 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release for all versions since WordPress 3.7. We strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. An XSS vulnerability was discovered in the Flash fallback files in MediaElement, a library that is...

libreoffice/hwpfuzzer: Crash in HMemIODev::readBlock

Project: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core Detailed report: https://oss-fuzz.com/testcase?key=6325603499245568 Project: libreoffice Fuzzer: libFuzzerlibreofficehwpfuzzer Fuzz target binary: hwpfuzzer Job Type: libfuzzerubsanlibreoffice Platform Id: linux Crash Type: UNKNOWN WRITE Cra...

Carbon Black & VMware Announce General Availability of Integrated Solution to Secure the SDDC

Securing your software-defined data center SDDC is fundamentally different than securing your end-user computers. Securing the endpoint is no longer enough - attackers have other angles they can take to wreak havoc on your system - but not securing your endpoints would be a big mistake. That’s wh...

FreeBSD : wordpress -- multiple issues (c04dc18f-fcde-11e7-bdf6-00e04c1ea73d)

wordpress developers reports : JavaScript errors that prevented saving posts in Firefox have been fixed. The previous taxonomy-agnostic behavior of getcategorylink and categorydescription was restored. Switching themes will now attempt to restore previous widget assignments, even when there are n...

wordpress -- multiple issues

wordpress developers reports: JavaScript errors that prevented saving posts in Firefox have been fixed. The previous taxonomy-agnostic behavior of getcategorylink and categorydescription was restored. Switching themes will now attempt to restore previous widget assignments, even when there are no...

Grab: Unrestricted access to https://██████.█████myteksi.net/

Hello again Grab Security Team ! Following my previous research, it seems that your Microservices architecture you are currently running on .█████myteksi.net is publicly exposed on another endpoint : https://█████████.█████myteksi.net. Summary: When researching and starting a new enumeration of...

CVE-2018-0008

An unauthenticated root login may allow upon reboot when a commit script is used. A commit script allows a device administrator to execute certain instructions during commit, which is configured under the system scripts commit stanza. Certain commit scripts that work without a problem during norm...

CPP-Ethereum JSON-RPC admin_peers improper authorization Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable improper authorization vulnerability exists in adminpeers API of cpp-ethereum’s JSON-RPC commit 4e1015743b95821849d001618a7ce82c7c073768. A JSON request can cause an access to the restricted functionality resulting in authorization bypass. An attacker can send JSON to trigg...

Wapiti 3.0.0 - The Web-Application Vulnerability Scanner

Wapiti allows you to audit the security of your websites or web applications. It performs "black-box" scans it does not study the source code of the web application by crawling the webpages of the deployed webapp, looking for scripts and forms where it can inject data. Once it gets the list of...

Cloudflare: // (double slash) inside es6 template literals interpreted as an inline comment by the auto-minifier

The following is valid javascript: var a = //; So is this: var url = https://hackerone.com; However, Cloudflare's auto-minifier removes the parts of both lines including and after the //, meaning in production, they look like this: var a = var url = https: This can either straight up break or...

Microsoft Windows Kernel - 'NtQueryVirtualMemory(MemoryMappedFilenameInformation)' Double-Write Ring-0 Address Leak

/ Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1456 We have discovered that it is possible to disclose addresses of kernel-mode Paged Pool allocations via a race-condition in the implementation of the NtQueryVirtualMemory system call information class 2,...