This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...

Microsoft Adds Direct Trust for Let’s Encrypt

Microsoft has added direct trust for Let’s Encrypt certificates, meaning that all major browsers and operating systems, including Apple, Blackberry, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle, now all directly trust the Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1. Let’s Encrypt provides free digital certificates...

PYSEC-2018-45

It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to...

PYSEC-2018-45

It was noticed an XSS in certain 404 pages that could be exploited to perform an XSS attack. Chrome will detect this as a reflected XSS attempt and prevent the page from loading. Firefox and other browsers don't, and are vulnerable to this attack. Mitigation: The fix for this is to upgrade to...

gogs -- open redirect vulnerability

bluecatli Tencent's Xuanwu Lab reports: The function isValidRedirect in gogs/routes/user/auth.go is used in login action to validate if url is on the same site. If the Location header startswith /, it will be transformed to // by browsers...

Cross site scripting

A flaw was found in CloudForms before 5.9.0.22 in the self-service UI snapshot feature where the name field is not properly sanitized for HTML and JavaScript input. An attacker could use this flaw to execute a stored XSS attack on an application administrator using CloudForms. Please note that CS...

Skia - Heap Overflow in SkScan::FillPath due to Precision Error Vulnerability

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc There is a heap overflow in Skia when drawing paths with antialiasing turned off. This issue can be triggered in both Google Chrom and Mozilla Firefox by rendering a specially crafted SVG image. PoCs for both browsers are attached. Details: When...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Standard Edition IBM Sterling File Gateway 2.2.0 through 2.2.6 caches usernames and passwords in browsers that could be used by a local attacker to obtain sensitive information. IBM X-Force ID: 130812...

HTTPS+TLS and IPv6-enablement both in the majority for World Cup streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action. A single-match peak for live video streaming of 22.5 Tbps was set on Akamai on Tuesday July 10 during the semi-final in Russia between France and...

CVE-2018-8287

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from...

CVE-2018-8287

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from...

Remote code execution

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,...

CVE-2018-8288

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,...

CVE-2018-8287: Out-of-bounds Write

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer 10. This CVE ID is unique from...

CVE-2018-8288: Out-of-bounds Write

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,...

CVE-2018-8288

CVE-2018-8288 is a remote code execution vulnerability in ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, and Microsoft Edge caused by memory handling of objects in the scripting engine (memory corruption). The CVE notes high impact with network access and required user interaction. Public references in the co...

CVE-2018-8291

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,...

CVE-2018-8291

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka "Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects ChakraCore, Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2018-8242,...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4338825)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4338825 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4338815)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4338815 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...