How to connect to a console of a Linux VM from XenServer Host Console

Sometimes it might be necessary to connect to the console of VM via command line when SSH and XenCenter console is not working. This article describe the process for it...

grub2: buffer overflow when checking password entered during bootup

A flaw was found in the way grub2 handled backspace characters entered in username and password prompts. An attacker with access to the system console could use this flaw to bypass grub2 password protection and gain administrative access to the system...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5306

OpenStack Ironic Inspector aka ironic-inspector or ironic-discoverd, when debug mode is enabled, might allow remote attackers to access the Flask console and execute arbitrary Python code by triggering an error...

Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201405-11

Gentoo Linux Local Security Checks GLSA 201405-11 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Eero Volotinen 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-or-later ifdescription...

OpenStack Compute websocket request source incorrect checksum validation hijacking vulnerability

OpenStack is a cloud computing platform developed by Rackspace and NASA to help service providers and on-premises organizations implement cloud infrastructures similar to Amazon EC2 and S3. OpenStack Compute and kilo fails to properly calibrate the source of Websocket requests vulnerability allow...

Authentication flaw

OpenStack Compute Nova before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage...

CVE-2015-0259

OpenStack Compute Nova before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0259

OpenStack Compute Nova before 2014.1.4, 2014.2.x before 2014.2.3, and kilo before kilo-3 does not validate the origin of websocket requests, which allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for access to consoles via a crafted webpage...

PT-2015-4548

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Compute Nova versions prior to 2014.1.4 OpenStack Compute Nova 2014.2.x versions prior to 2014.2.3 OpenStack Compute Nova kilo versions prior to kilo-3 Description The issue concerns the failure to validate the origin of websocket...

CVE-2015-2152

Xen 4.5.x and earlier enables certain default backends when emulating a VGA device for an x86 HVM guest qemu even when the configuration disables them, which allows local guest users to obtain access to the VGA console by 1 setting the DISPLAY environment variable, when compiled with SDL support,...

Zabbix 2.0.5 Password Disclosure

This module requires Metasploit Date: 25-09-2013 Author: Pablo González Vendor Homepage: Zabbix - http://www.zabbix.com Software Link: http://www.zabbix.com Version: 2.0.5 Tested On: Linux Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS CVE: CVE-2013-5572 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5572 More Inf...

Zabbix 2.0.5 - Cleartext ldap_bind_Password Password Disclosure (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit Date: 25-09-2013 Author: Pablo González Vendor Homepage: Zabbix - http://www.zabbix.com Software Link: http://www.zabbix.com Version: 2.0.5 Tested On: Linux Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS CVE: CVE-2013-5572 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5572 More Inf...

openstack-nova: Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console

A race condition flaw was found in the way the nova VMware driver handled VNC port allocation. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain unauthorized console access to instances belonging to other tenants by repeatedly spawning new instances. Note that only nova setups using the VMware...

openstack-nova: Nova VMware driver may connect VNC to another tenant's console

A race condition flaw was found in the way the nova VMware driver handled VNC port allocation. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain unauthorized console access to instances belonging to other tenants by repeatedly spawning new instances. Note that only nova setups using the VMware...

CVE-2014-5026

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b allow remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a 1 Graph Tree Title in a delete or 2 edit action; 3 CDEF Name, 4 Data Input Method Name, or 5 Host Templates Name in a delete action; ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5026

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b allow remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a 1 Graph Tree Title in a delete or 2 edit action; 3 CDEF Name, 4 Data Input Method Name, or 5 Host Templates Name in a delete action; ...

CVE-2014-5026

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Cacti 0.8.8b allow remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a 1 Graph Tree Title in a delete or 2 edit action; 3 CDEF Name, 4 Data Input Method Name, or 5 Host Templates Name in a delete action; ...

CVE-2014-5025

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in datasources.php in Cacti 0.8.8b allows remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the namecache parameter in a dsedit action...

CVE-2014-5025

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in datasources.php in Cacti 0.8.8b allows remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the namecache parameter in a dsedit action...

CVE-2014-5025

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in datasources.php in Cacti 0.8.8b allows remote authenticated users with console access to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the namecache parameter in a dsedit action...