A week in security (December 15 – December 21)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: CISA warns ASUS Live Update backdoor is still exploitable, seven years on The ghosts of WhatsApp: How GhostPairing hijacks accounts Chrome extension slurps up AI chats after users installed it for privacy Two Chrome flaws could be triggered by simply browsing the...

CVE-2024-3049

A flaw was found in Booth, a cluster ticket manager. If a specially-crafted hash is passed to gcrymdgetalgodlen, it may allow an invalid HMAC to be accepted by the Booth server...

booth: authfile directive in booth config file is completely ignored.

A flaw was found in booth in the way it handles the authfile directive in configuration files, which causes authentication to be skipped between nodes. As a result, an attacker-controlled node that does not have the correct authentication key does not prevent communication with other nodes in the...