Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory [DTC-A-20140820-001] check_mk vulnerabilities

Deutsche Telekom CERT Advisory DTC-A-20140820-001 Summary: Several vulnerabilities were found in checkmk prior versions 1.2.4p4 and 1.2.5i4. The vulnerabilities are: 1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS 2 - write access to config files .mk files 3 - arbitrary code execution Recommendations:...

Secret Service Backoff point of sale malware advisory

Point-of-sale malware is a problem that apparently isn’t going away any time soon. No doubt spurred on by the massive data loss absorbed in the Target data breach and most recently Supervalu grocery chains, and UPS, which disclosed last week that 51 of its stores were victimized by credit card...

Backoff Point-of-Sale Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of Backoff malware compromising a significant number of major enterprise networks as well as small and medium businesses. US-CERT encourages administrators and operators of Point-of-Sale systems to review the Backoff malware alert to help determine if your network may be affected...

Siemens Patches DoS Vulnerability in SIMATIC S7

Siemens released an update for one of its automation systems late last week, patching a denial of service vulnerability in all versions of its SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU prior to V1.6. An advisory on the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team’s ICS-CERT website warned about the...

Breach of Patient Identification Information

US-CERT is aware of a breach of sensitive patient identification information affecting approximately 4.5 million patients and customers of Community Health Systems, Inc. As part of DHS, US-CERT is working together with the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services to assist in sharing...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome, Chrome OS and Chrome for Android. Some of these vulnerabilities could potentially allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service. Updates available include: Chrome 36.0.1985.143 for...

Microsoft Releases August 2014 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, SQL Server, Server Software, .NET Framework, and Internet Explorer as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for August 2014. Some of these vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution, elevation of...

Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection

US-CERT is aware of a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Symantec Endpoint Protection. This vulnerability affects all versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection Client 11.x and 12.x running Application and Device Control. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain ful...

Nordex NC2 XSS Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This advisory is a follow-up to the alert titled ICS-ALERT-13-304-01 Nordex NC2 – Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability that was published October 31, 2013, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Darius Freamon identified a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the Nordex...

Vulnerability Fixed in Subnet Solutions SCADA Server

A hole has been fixed in a popular industrial control system data management server that if left unpatched, could result in a remotely exploitable denial of service condition. Subnet Solutions, Inc., a Canadian manufacturer of electric utility products, fixed the vulnerability – along with anothe...

ICS-CERT Warns of Flaw in Innominate mGuard Secure Cloud Product

The ICS-CERT is warning users about a vulnerability in a secure public cloud product from Innominate that enables an attacker to gain valuable configuration data about a target system, information that could be used in future attacks. The vulnerability is an information disclosure bug in the...

Siemens Patches Five Vulnerabilities in SIMATIC System

Siemens released an update for two builds of its SIMATIC automation system this week, addressing a quintet of vulnerabilities, four of which are remotely exploitable. The German company’s SIMATIC WinCC, a SCADA system and SIMATIC PCS7, a distributed control system DCS are directly affected by the...

Trio of Flaws Haunts OleumTech Wireless Monitoring System

Researchers have identified several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in a wireless remote monitoring product from OleumTech that is used in energy, water and other critical infrastructure sectors. Two of the three flaws are related to the encryption implementation in the affected products,...

FreeBSD : mcollective -- cert valication issue (ecea9e92-0be5-4931-88da-8772d044972a)

Melissa Stone reports : The MCollective aessecurity public key plugin does not correctly validate certs against the CA. By exploiting this vulnerability within a race/initialization window, an attacker with local access could initiate an unauthorized MCollective client connection with a server, a...

IOServer Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Chris Sistrunk of Mandiant and Adam Crain of Automatak have identified an out of bound read vulnerability in the IOServer application. IOServer has produced a new version that mitigates this vulnerability. Adam Crain has tested the new version to validate that it resolves the...

GE Proficy HMI/SCADA CIMPLICITY CimView Memory Access Violation

OVERVIEW This advisory was originally posted to the NCCIC/US-CERT secure Portal library on October 16, 2014, and is being released to the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Said Arfi has identified a memory access violation vulnerability in GE’s CIMPLICITY CimView application. GE has...

Siemens Working on Patches for OpenSSL Bugs Under Exploit

Siemens says it is working on patches for four critical vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL libraries it uses in a number of its industrial control products, flaws that are being exploited in the wild. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT cautioned too that critical...

CareFusion Pyxis SupplyStation System Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Billy Rios identified authentication vulnerabilities in CareFusion’s Pyxis SupplyStation system. CareFusion has implemented additional controls to mitigate some of these vulnerabilities in the SupplyStation system. Some of the reported vulnerabilities could be...

Cisco Patches Wireless Residential Gateway Vulnerabilities

US-CERT issued an advisory yesterday warning of a critical vulnerability in Cisco’s Wireless Residential Gateway. Cisco has patched the vulnerability and also released its own warning, informing customers of a remote code execution vulnerability in the web server used by the gateway that is prese...

Oracle Releases July 2014 Security Advisory

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2014 to address 113 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the following security fixes: 5 for Oracle Database Server 29 for Oracle Fusion Middleware 7 for Oracle Hyperion 1 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 5...