What We're Looking Forward to at Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSidesLV 2022

The week of Black Hat, DEF CON, and BSides is highly anticipated annual tradition for the cybersecurity community, a weeklong chance for security pros from all corners of the industry to meet in Las Vegas to talk shop and share what they've spent the last 12 months working on. But like many belov...

modDetective - Tool That Chronologizes Files Based On Modification Time In Order To Investigate Recent System Activity

modDetective is a small Python tool that chronologizes files based on modification time in order to investigate recent system activity. This can be used in CTF's in order to pinpoint where escalation and attack vectors may exist. To see the tool in its most useful form, try running the command as...

MAL-2022-2849 Malicious code in esperamier-ctf (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 52bfdf9444b341e41e024c45a5d5dc7dbf15553c8f3c3ca808ec74091bc85c63 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Malicious code in esperamier-ctf (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware 52bfdf9444b341e41e024c45a5d5dc7dbf15553c8f3c3ca808ec74091bc85c63 Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

libdtrace-ctf Required to Install Veeam Agent for Linux on Oracle Linux UEK

Challenge When installing Veeam Agent for Linux on Oracle Linux 6 or 7 with UEK kernel, the veeamsnap package fails to install with the following error: Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: Consult /var/lib/dkms/veeamsnap//build/make.log for more information. The make.log example...

Google kCTF Access Control Error Vulnerability

Google kCTF is a Kubernetes-based CTF competition infrastructure from Google Google. kCTF v1.6.0 prior to the release of Google kCTF has an access control error vulnerability, which stems from the existence of improper access control in the kctf cluster, which can be exploited by attackers to...

CVE-2022-31055

Summary: CVE-2022-31055 relates to Google kCTF, a Kubernetes-based CTF infrastructure. Several connected sources confirm that prior to version 1.6.0 the kCTF cluster set-src-ip-ranges feature was broken, effectively allowing traffic from any IP due to improper access control. The issue was patche...

CVE-2022-31055 Improper Access Control in kctf

kCTF is a Kubernetes-based infrastructure for capture the flag CTF competitions. Prior to version 1.6.0, the kctf cluster set-src-ip-ranges was broken and allowed traffic from any IP. The problem has been patched in v1.6.0. As a workaround, those who want to test challenges privately can mark the...

Google kCTF security vulnerability

Google kCTF is a Kubernetes-based CTF competition infrastructure from Google Google. kCTF v1.6.0 prior to the release of Google kCTF has an access control error vulnerability, which stems from the existence of improper access control in the kctf cluster, which can be exploited by attackers to...

PHDays 11: towards the Independence Era

Hello everyone! In this episode, I want to talk about the Positive Hack Days 11 conference, which took place on May 18 and 19 in Moscow. As usual, I want to express my personal opinion about this event. Alternative video link for Russia: As I did last year, I want to start talking about this...

HackerOne: Race condition in joining CTF group

Summary: A race condition in https://ctf.hacker101.com/group/join allows a user to join the same CTF group multiple times. The user will show up in the group member list multiple times, and affect the group statistics. Description: Interestingly a race condition in this feature was reported in...

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco!

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco! By Trellix · February 1, 2022 This story was written by Steve Povolny. The Advanced Threat Research team, now with Trellix, is pleased to announce the return of our second annual Capture the Flag contest featuring 12 new challenges of...

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco!

Trellix Launches Annual CTF Competition – Catmen Sanfrancisco! By Trellix · February 1, 2022 This story was written by Steve Povolny. The Advanced Threat Research team, now with Trellix, is pleased to announce the return of our second annual Capture the Flag contest featuring 12 new challenges of...

h1-ctf: Saving Christmas from Grinchy Gods

It was a fun CTF to play had some good learning on thinking of how to approach real world targets and more things we can try while testing any target , some nudges were good and reminded of scenarios of actual microservices are built where these security issues can be present huge shoutouts to Ad...

h1-ctf: The Return of the Grinch

Read the full writeup here: https://github.com/tarifas90/CTF-Writeups-2021/blob/main/hackyholidasy2021.md...

Congrats to the Winners of the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Metasploit community CTF! Like last year, this CTF ran over the past 4 days and invited community members to solve a series of challenges. This year saw 1,501 users registered across 727 teams. If you participated in the CTF, we have a feedback...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Metasploit CTF 2021 starts today It’s that time of year again! Time for the 2021 Metasploit Community CTF. Earlier today over 1,100 users in more than 530 teams were registered and opened for participation to solve this year’s 18 challenges. Next week a recap and the winners will be announced, so...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Self-Service Remote Code Execution This week, our own @wvu-r7 added an exploit module that achieves unauthenticated remote code execution in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, a self-service password management and single sign-on solution for Active Directory. This new module leverages a REST API...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Azure Active Directory login scanner module Community contributor k0pak4 added a new login scanner module for Azure Active Directory. This module exploits a vulnerable authentication endpoint in order to enumerate usernames without generating log events. The error code returned by the endpoint ca...

gcc-toolset-11-gcc security update

11.2.1-1.2.0.1 - Add -ftrivial-auto-var-init support from GCC12 Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi - Add CTF/BTF support Reviewed-by: Qing Zhao 11.2.1-1.2 - add -Wbidirectional patch 2017819...