Access control vulnerability due to dismissive git & test politics

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact High risk access control vulnerability due to overutilizing rewards logic Proof of Concept Commenting out accessibility checks may lead to overutilizing existing rewards logic Tools Used Manual review Recommended Mitigation Steps git diff test coverage...

Qualys Named a Market Leader in GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing

Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS has been named a leader in the GigaOm Radar Report for Application Security Testing, 2023. Web app security is critical for every organization, for attacks on this vector caused 25% of breaches, according to the Verizon 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. T...

The current vlCVX balance is not freezed, when withdrawal has been requested

Lines of code Vulnerability details Vulnerability Details After some deposits/withdrawals being made by users, the following edge case might occur: Let's say, n = totalLockedBalancePlusUnlockable, before iterating over the lockedBalances. t1 = lockedBalance0.unlockTime t2 =...

ICS protocol coverage using Snort 3 service inspectors

With more devices on operational technology OT networks now getting connected to wide-reaching IT networks, it is more important than ever to have effective detection capabilities for ICS protocols. However, there are a few issues that usually arise when creating detection for ICS protocol traffi...

Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrates 100 percent protection coverage in the 2023 MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise

For the fifth consecutive year, Microsoft 365 Defender demonstrated industry-leading extended detection and response XDR capabilities in the independent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise. The attack used during the test highlights the importance of a unified XDR platform and showcas...

Absence of Start-End Time Validation in Range Creation

Lines of code Vulnerability details The code allows the creation of a Range structure without ensuring that startTime is strictly less than endTime. The absence of this validation might lead to unintended behavior or logical errors in functionalities that rely on the order of these timestamps...

Eight vulnerabilities in Open Automation Software Platform could lead to information disclosure, improper authentication

Cisco Talos recently disclosed eight vulnerabilities in the engine configuration functionality in Open Automations Software Platform. OAS Platform is commonly found in industrial operations and enterprise environments. It allows various devices, including PLCs, servers, files, databases and...

Three vulnerabilities in NVIDIA graphics driver could cause memory corruption

Piotr Bania of Cisco Talos discovered the vulnerabilities mentioned in this post. Cisco Talos recently disclosed three vulnerabilities in the shader functionality of the NVIDIA D3D10 driver that works with NVIDIAs graphics cards. The driver is vulnerable to memory corruption if an adversary sends...

Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities in popular chemistry software; Foxit PDF Reader issues could lead to remote code execution

Cisco Talos recently worked with two vendors to patch multiple vulnerabilities in a favored software library used in chemistry laboratories and the Foxit PDF Reader, one of the most popular PDF reader alternatives to Adobe Acrobat. Attackers could exploit these vulnerabilities to carry out a...

Oracle Patch Tuesday, July 2023 Security Update Review

Oracle has released its third quarterly edition of Critical Patch Update, which contains a group of patches for 508 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed this month impact more than one product. These patches address vulnerabilities in Oracle code and third-party...

Maximizing Performance with Wallarm Filtering Nodes in Amazon’s Global Infrastructure

Introduction In todays digital landscape, ensuring the security and performance of web applications is paramount. To achieve optimal protection against cyber threats, organizations deploy web application and API protection WAAPs like Wallarm. However, to truly leverage the benefits of Wallarm,...

Beyond Asset Discovery: How Attack Surface Management Prioritizes Vulnerability Remediation

As the business environment becomes increasingly connected, organizations' attack surfaces continue to expand, making it challenging to map and secure both known and unknown assets. In particular, unknown assets present security challenges related to shadow IT, misconfigurations, ineffective scan...

RHEL 8 : python27:2.7 (RHSA-2023:3780)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:3780 advisory. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types...

Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management 101

Understanding CAASM This article was written by Ethan Smart, Co-Founder and Chief Solution Architect, appNovi a Rapid7 integration partner. It's essential for security and IT teams to have a comprehensive view and control of their cyber assets. This is why Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management...

Ransomware Insurance: Security Strategies to Obtain Coverage

Ransomware accounts for 75% of all cyber insurance claims, yet 40% of business currently lack the coverage needed. Discover security strategies to help you meet ransomware insurance requirements...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: python-starlette-0.20.4-3.fc37

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python. It is production-ready, and gives you the following: =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD A lightweight, low-complexity HTTP web framewor k. =EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD WebSocket support...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q2 2023

Rapid7 recognized amongst the top MDR providers in the industry. As security teams try to do more with less, addressing the sprawling attack surface and monitoring the escalating threat and risk landscape, it inherently leaves them at a disadvantage. Rapid7 Managed Threat Complete empowers...

OSV-2023-380 UNKNOWN WRITE in bool OT::Layout::Common::Coverage::serialize<hb_map_iter_t<hb_map_iter_t<hb_filt

OSS-Fuzz report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=58663 Crash type: UNKNOWN WRITE Crash state: bool OT::Layout::Common::Coverage::serialize::subset hbsubsetcontextt::returnt OT::Layout::GSUBimpl::SubstLookupSubTable::dispat...

Oracle Patch Tuesday April 2023 Security Update Review

Oracle has released the second quarterly edition of Critical Patch Update, which contains a group of patches for 433 security vulnerabilities. Some of the vulnerabilities addressed this month impact various products. These patches address vulnerabilities in Oracle code and third-party components...

GHSA-XJ29-GFWW-J67G Jenkins JaCoCo Plugin vulnerable to Stored Cross-site Scripting

Jenkins JaCoCo Plugin 3.3.2 and earlier does not escape class and method names shown on the UI, resulting in a stored cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exploitable by attackers able to control input files for the 'Record JaCoCo coverage report' post-build action. Version 3.3.2.1 escapes clas...