Largest DDoS attack ever reported gets hoovered up by Cloudflare

On the Cloudflare blog, the American web infrastructure behemoth that provides content delivery network CDN and DDoS mitigation services reports that it detected and mitigated a 17.2 million request-per-second rps DDoS attack. To put that number in perspective. The company reports that this is...

World-Class OTT Streaming from MwareTV with Akamai

Written by: Ina Christova Since the onset of the pandemic, home entertainment has never been more important. Millions of users across the globe have turned to over-the-top OTT streaming and live TV to bring much-needed diversion and exciting content into their lives. MwareTV provides content...

Discord CDN and API Abuses Drive Wave of Malware Detections

Discord has a malware problem. And although the platform is predominantly used by gamers, it turns out even users who have never interacted with Discord are at risk. Discord creates servers or specific groups or communities of users who can send voice, text and other media messages between one...

CVE-2021-24427

The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin before 2.1.3 did not sanitise or escape some of its CDN settings, allowing high privilege users to use JavaScript in them, which will be output in the page, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue...

Cross site scripting

The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin before 2.1.3 did not sanitise or escape some of its CDN settings, allowing high privilege users to use JavaScript in them, which will be output in the page, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue...

CVE-2021-24427 W3 Total Cache < 2.1.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin before 2.1.3 did not sanitise or escape some of its CDN settings, allowing high privilege users to use JavaScript in them, which will be output in the page, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue...

WordPress 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language by the WordPress Wordpress Foundation. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.W3 Total Cache is a website caching plugin. A code injection vulnerability exists in WordPress Plugin...

Targeted Cache Control

Content delivery networks CDNs have been around and have evolved over a long time in internet years. They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards -- HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there...

Cache Manipulation Attack in Apache Traffic Control

When ORT now via atstccfg generates ipallow.config files in Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, those files include permissions that allow bad actors to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers. Additionally, these permissions are...

GHSA-PW59-4QGF-JXR8 Cache Manipulation Attack in Apache Traffic Control

When ORT now via atstccfg generates ipallow.config files in Apache Traffic Control 3.0.0 to 3.1.0 and 4.0.0 to 4.1.0, those files include permissions that allow bad actors to push arbitrary content into and remove arbitrary content from CDN cache servers. Additionally, these permissions are...

W3 Total Cache < 2.1.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The plugin did not sanitise or escape some of its CDN settings, allowing high privilege users to use JavaScript in them, which will be output in the page, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue PoC Vulnerable parameters: cnames= 1, cdncnames= 2, cdncnames= 3. CDN Type:...

W3 Total Cache < 2.1.3 - Authenticated Stored XSS

The plugin did not sanitise or escape some of its CDN settings, allowing high privilege users to use JavaScript in them, which will be output in the page, leading to an authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue Vulnerable parameters: &cdncnames= 1, cdncnames= 2, cdncnames= 3. CDN Type:...

Platform Update: Akamai Boosts Edge Application Power, Expanding Possibilities for Developers

Welcome to the Akamai Platform Update -- two days of new capabilities and innovations across our edge technology and security product portfolios. Today, we look at our edge technology products, which include edge computing, edge delivery CDN, and other complementary products and services that hel...

Rockstar Games: Cache Poisoning DoS on updates.rockstargames.com

In this report, the researcher discovered that there was a cache poisoning weakness on updates.rockstargames.com due to an unkeyed header, trailer. By sending this header, an attacker could cause the cache to save a malformed response with status code 400. An example of such a request, as provide...

Is It Time to Consider Replacing Your CDN?

Content delivery networks CDNs are the pipelines of the Internet. Working behind the scenes, they are reshaping how information is consumed online, accelerating web traffic, enhancing user experience, and providing every website with the ability to truly go global. As you may imagine, any...

How Enigmo Moved Logic from Client to Origin to Edge

By: Hideki Ito Enigmo owns BUYMA, a Japanese fashion C2C marketplace that helps people buy and sell high-quality goods from overseas on www.buyma.com. BUYMA has 8.21 million members and deals with 5.62 million items across 140,000 fashion brands. Its website uses EdgeWorkers to manipulate cookies...

CVE-2021-32616

1CDN is open-source file sharing software. In 1CDN before commit f88a2730fa50fc2c2aeab09011f6f142fd90ec25, there is a basic cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject ///code and execute JavaScript code on the client side...

Stack overflow

The affected product is vulnerable to stack-based buffer overflow while processing over-the-air firmware updates from the CDN server, which may allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the SimpleLink Wi-Fi MSP432E4 SDK: v4.20.00.12 and prior, CC32XX SDK v4.30.00.06 and prior, CC13X0 SDK...

CVE-2021-22673

The CVE-2021-22673 entry concerns Texas Instruments SimpleLink wireless MCUs. A stack-based buffer overflow bug occurs while processing over-the-air firmware updates from the CDN server, potentially allowing remote code execution on affected devices. Affected SDKs include MSP432E4 SDK v4.20.00.12...

Password manager hijacked to deliver malware in supply chain attack

In the latest example of a supply chain attack, cybercriminals delivered malware to customers of the business password manager Passwordstate by breaching its developer’s networks and then deploying a fraudulent update last week, said Passwordstate’s maker, Click Studios. Though the number of...