Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process

In my latest book, A Hackers Mind, I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers--supposedly unique in their specificity--to change a one-year funding increase into a 400-year funding increase. He took this wording:...

USN-6204-1 cpdb-libs vulnerability

Seth Arnold discovered that CPDB incorrectly handled certain characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Thunderbird 102.13.1 — Mozilla

Thunderbird allowed the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames. An email attachment could be incorrectly shown as being a document file, while in fact it was an executable file. Newer versions of Thunderbird will strip the character and show the correct file extension...

Medium: glib2

Issue Overview: PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the : and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object...

PYSEC-2023-94

Flask-AppBuilder is an application development framework, built on top of Flask. Prior to version 4.3.2, an authenticated malicious actor with Admin privileges, could by adding a special character on the add, edit User forms trigger a database error, this error is surfaced back to this actor on t...

GHSA-JHPR-J7CQ-3JP3 Flask-AppBuilder vulnerable to possible disclosure of sensitive information on user error

Impact An authenticated malicious actor with Admin privileges, could by adding a special character on the add, edit User forms trigger a database error, this error is surfaced back to this actor on the UI. On certain database engines this error can include the entire user row including the...

Important: kernel security and bug fix update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: kernel: use-after-free vulnerability in the perfgroupdetach function of the Linux Kernel Performance Events CVE-2023-2235 kernel: netfilter: use-after-free in nftables when processing batch...

fast-xml-parser regex vulnerability patch could be improved from a safety perspective

Summary This is a comment on https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-6w63-h3fj-q4vw and the patches fixing it. Details The code which validates a name calls the validator:...

CVE-2023-34454 snappy-java's Integer Overflow vulnerability in compress leads to DoS

snappy-java is a fast compressor/decompressor for Java. Due to unchecked multiplications, an integer overflow may occur in versions prior to 1.1.10.1, causing an unrecoverable fatal error. The function compresschar input in the file Snappy.java receives an array of characters and compresses it. I...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : binutils (EulerOS-SA-2023-2207)

According to the versions of the binutils packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : Assertion fail in the displaydebugnames function in binutils/dwarf.c may lead to program crash and denial of service.CVE-2022-381...

CVE-2023-1016

The Intuitive Custom Post Order plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.1.4.1, due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied 'objects' and 'tags' parameters and lack of sufficient preparation in the 'updateoptions' function as well as the...

CVE-2023-1016 Intuitive Custom Post Order <= 3.1.4.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) SQL Injection

The Intuitive Custom Post Order plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection in versions up to, and including, 3.1.4.1, due to insufficient escaping on the user supplied 'objects' and 'tags' parameters and lack of sufficient preparation in the 'updateoptions' function as well as the...

Medium: pcre

Issue Overview: PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the : and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service uninitialized memory read or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object...

Information Disclosure

github.com/minio/console is vulnerable to Information Disclosure. The vulnerability exists due to IconWithLabel.tsx because the unicode right to left character masks the original filename...

CVE-2023-29539

When handling the filename directive in the Content-Disposition header, the filename would be truncated if the filename contained a NULL character. This could have led to reflected file download attacks potentially tricking users to install malware. This vulnerability affects Firefox 112, Focus f...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-29539

When handling the filename directive in the Content-Disposition header, the filename would be truncated if the filename contained a NULL character. This could have led to reflected file download attacks potentially tricking users to install malware. This vulnerability affects Firefox 112, Focus f...

Slackware Linux 14.0 / 14.1 / 14.2 / 15.0 / current ntp Multiple Vulnerabilities (SSA:2023-153-02)

The version of ntp installed on the remote host is prior to 4.2.8p16. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SSA:2023-153-02 advisory. - mstolfp in libntp/mstolfp.c in NTP 4.2.8p15 has an out-of-bounds write in the cpcpdec while loop. An adversary may be able ...

CAPTCHA-Breaking Services with Human Solvers Helping Cybercriminals Defeat Security

Cybersecurity researchers are warning about CAPTCHA-breaking services that are being offered for sale to bypass systems designed to distinguish legitimate users from bot traffic. "Because cybercriminals are keen on breaking CAPTCHAs accurately, several services that are primarily geared toward th...

CVE-2023-33955 Minio console object names with RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE unicode character can be exploited

Minio Console is the UI for MinIO Object Storage. Unicode RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE characters can be used to mask the original filename. This issue has been patched in version 0.28.0...

PT-2023-24595 · Minio · Minio Console

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Minio Console versions prior to 0.28.0 Description: The issue allows Unicode RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE characters to be used to mask the original filename. This can potentially lead to misleading or hidden file information. Recommendations: For...