OWASP Mantra Security Toolkit - Browser Based Security Framework

OWASP Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for students, penetration testers, web application developers,security professionals etc. It is portable, ready-to-run, compact and follows the true spirit of free and open source...

Stored XSS in OnDemand Confluence Header via username

This is from an external report. Creating a user with username: code " code and returning to the dashboard will demonstrate the script injection. This PoC will not work in Chrome/Chromium, but will in Firefox and other browsers that do not have such protective measures...

Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2014-1754 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description Microsoft SharePoint is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may...

RedHat Update for firefox RHSA-2014:0448-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2014:0310 centos6

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

MGASA-2014-0134 Updated chromium-browser-stable packages fix security vulnerabilities

Use-after-free in speech CVE-2014-1700. UXSS in events CVE-2014-1701. Use-after-free in web database CVE-2014-1702. Potential sandbox escape due to a use-after-free in web sockets CVE-2014-1703. Multiple vulnerabilities in V8 fixed in version 3.23.17.18 CVE-2014-1704. Memory corruption in V8...

IE 11 Stands Up to Pwn2Own Exploit Attempt

VANCOUVER – Successful exploits at the Pwn2Own contest get all the glitz, but the rarities are the exploits that fail. A group of four young South Korean hackers from ASRT, all of them well shy of their thirtieth birthdays, stood in proxy for Jung Hoon Lee. Lee was home fulfilling a military...

Vupen Cashes in Four Times at Pwn2Own 2014

VANCOUVER – It’s become a familiar walk for Chaouki Bekrar. Year after year at the Pwn2Own contest, the controversial Vupen founder is scurried from a small room in the basement of the Sheraton hotel to a suite several floors above. It’s a short journey from where a string of zero-day exploits ar...

Microsoft Direct2D Graphics Component Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the...

Updated chromium-browser-stable package fixes multiple vulnerabilities

Use-after-free related to forms CVE-2013-6641. Unprompted sync with an attackers Google account CVE-2013-6643. Various fixes from internal audits, fuzzing and other initiatives CVE-2013-6644. Use-after-free related to speech input elements CVE-2013-6645. Use-after-free in web workers CVE-2013-664...

Google adds its Chrome apps and extensions to Bug Bounty Program

Google's Vulnerability Reward Program which started in November 2010, offers a hefty reward to the one who find a good vulnerability in its products. Now Google is getting a little more serious about the security of its Chrome Browser and has expanded its Bug Bounty Program to include all Chrome...

HackerOne: Autocomplete enabled in Paypal preferences

Data entered in these fields will be cached by the browser. An attacker who can access the victim's browser could steal this information...

Mozilla Thunderbird vulnerability allows hackers to Insert malicious code into Emails

Do you use Thunderbird, a free; open-source; cross-platform application for managing email and news feeds? According to a Pakistani Security Researcher from Vulnerability-Lab, a flaw gives an attacker the ability to run code on a user’s machine. Mozilla Thunderbird 17.0.6 email application is...

Google Chrome to encrypt Stored Cookies by default to enhance browser security

When you visit a website, it stores some information on your system through a web browser for later use i.e. Login information, so you do not have to re-login to your website every time you visit the same website on the same browser. Cookies are usually stored as plain text or in the database by...

How to Create a Better Malware Warning Through Psychology

It turns out the best way to get people to pay attention to those malware warnings that pop up in browsers may be to stop tweaking them, scrap them entirely and rebuild from scratch. According to a study on the subject published last week, efficient malware warnings shouldn’t scare users away, th...

Microsoft ASP.NET SignalR CVE-2013-5042 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description Microsoft ASP.NET SignalR is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly encode user input. An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This could allow...

Character encoding cross-origin XSS attack — Mozilla

Security researcher Masato Kinugawa discovered that if a web page is missing character set encoding information it can inherit character encodings across navigations into another domain from an earlier site. Only same-origin inheritance is allowed according to the HTML5 specification. This issue...

bugs in IJG jpeg6b & libjpeg-turbo

Dearly beloved, So, for one reason or another, the IJG jpeg library has gained some notoriety as one of the most robust pieces of complex, security-critical C code. Despite countless fuzzing efforts, I don't recall any reports of serious vulnerabilities at least since the release of jpeg6b in 199...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2797-1] chromium-browser security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2797-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert November 16, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Google Chrome adds automatic malware blocking for suspicious downloads

Today Malware is a very real threat, and if you're not careful about what you download and install, you could end up with a serious problem. But now Google will be trying their very best to block malware from installing itself on your computer on your behalf. Google has developed a security featu...