Explicit content and cyberthreats: 2019 report

'Stay at home' is the new motto for 2020 and it has entailed many changes to our daily lives, most importantly, in terms of our digital content consumption. With users opting to entertain themselves online, malicious activity has grown. Over the past two years we have reviewed how adult content h...

h1-ctf: [H1-2006 2020] CTF Writeup

Summary: The CTF's objective could be found in the following Twitter post: F858468 As outlined on https://hackerone.com/h1-ctf, all subdomains of bountypay.h1ctf.com are in scope. Doing subdomain enumeration revealed the following subdomains: api.bountypay.h1ctf.com app.bountypay.h1ctf.com...

HTTP Request Smuggling

Overview netius is a Python network library that can be used for the rapid creation of asynchronous non-blocking servers and clients. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Request Smuggling. HTTP pipelining issues and request smuggling attacks might be possible due to incorrect...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL7.x x86_64 (20200407)

kernel: out of bound read in DVB connexant driver. kernel: Missing permissions check for requestkey destination allows local attackers to add keys to keyring without Write permission kernel: denial of service via ioctl call in network tun handling kernel: usb: missing size check in the...

Information Disclosure

kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. The padding data in several core network structures was not initialized properly before being sent to user-space, possibly leading to information leaks...

CVE-2019-17053

A vulnerability was discovered in the Linux kernel's AFIEEE802154 networking module where permissions checks are not enforced. This can allow an unprivileged user to create raw sockets for this protocol leading to the potential for data leaks or system unavailability...

CVE-2020-11458

CVE-2020-11458 affects MISP versions prior to 2.4.124, where app/Model/feed.php allows administrators to select arbitrary files to ingest. This does not expose full file contents but can leak strings matching patterns, including passwords from database.php or GPG passphrases from config.php. Rele...

chromium-browser: Insufficient policy enforcement in AppCache

Insufficient policy enforcement in AppCache in Google Chrome prior to 80.0.3987.87 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page...

New ‘CacheOut’ Attack Targets Intel CPUs

Researchers have identified a new speculative execution type attack, dubbed CacheOut, that could allow attackers to trigger data leaks from most Intel CPUs. The more serious of the two bugs, revealed Monday, is rated medium severity by Intel, who said fixes for both flaws are on the way. The more...

IoT Smartwatch Exposes Kids' Personal, GPS Data

Researchers are warning parents that a children’s connected smartwatch has vulnerabilities that leak users’ personal and GPS data, and allow attackers to listen in on and manipulate conversations. Worse, the smartwatch in question, SMA M2, is currently used by 5,000 children worldwide. Chinese...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in Open Source Samba affect IBM Netezza Host Management

Summary Open Source Samba is used by IBM Netezza Host Mangement. IBM Netezza Host Management has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-12163 DESCRIPTION: Samba could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a memory leak over...

GitLab: Elasticsearch leaks data through the notes scope

Summary The Elasticsearch results, when filtering using the notes scope, leaks data about private groups, private projects, and private issues. Steps to reproduce 1. Search, as an anonymous user, nextbit in the Gitlab group, filtering for "comments" link 2. You will have as result a private note...

Tachyon - Fast HTTP Dead File Finder

Tachyon is a fast web application security reconnaissance tool. It is specifically meant to crawl web application and look for left over or non-indexed files with the addition of reporting pages or scripts leaking internal data. User Requirements Linux Python 3.5.2 User Installation Install: $...

5 simple steps to securing your remote employees

As remote working has become standard practice, employees are working from anywhere and using any device they can to get the job done. That means repeated connections to unsecured public Wi-Fi networks—at a coffee shop or juice bar, for example—and higher risks for data leaks from lost, misplaced...

Medical industry struggles with PACS data leaks

In the medical world, sharing patient data between organizations and specialists has always been an issue. X-Rays, notes, CT scans, and any other data or related files have always existed and been shared in their physical forms slides, paperwork. When a patient needed to take results of a test to...

USN-3991-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, spoof the browser UI, trick the user in to launching local executable binaries, obtain sensitive...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: vdsm security update

An update for vdsm is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

CVE-2018-16879

Ansible Tower before version 3.3.3 does not set a secure channel as it is using the default insecure configuration channel settings for messaging celery workers from RabbitMQ. This could lead in data leak of sensitive information such as passwords as well as denial of service attacks by deleting...

A week in security (November 12 – 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we found out that TrickBot became a top business threat, so we took a deeper look at what's new with it. With Christmas just around the corner, the Secret Sister scam returned. We also touched on the security and privacy or lack thereof in smart jewelry, air traffi...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in GSKit

Summary IBM Security Access Manager has addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-0705 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double-free error when parsing DSA private keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memor...