Path traversal

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. A path traversal directory traversal vulnerability affects fides versions lower than version 2.15.1, allowing...

PYSEC-2023-107

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. A path traversal directory traversal vulnerability affects fides versions lower than version 2.15.1, allowing...

CVE-2023-36827

CVE-2023-36827 (Fides) : A path traversal vulnerability affects Fides webserver in versions below 2.15.1, enabling remote attackers to access arbitrary files on the webserver container filesystem. The issue is fixed in 2.15.1. If the webserver API is behind a reverse proxy and the proxy is an AWS...

CVE-2023-36827 Fides vulnerable to Path Traversal in Webserver API

Fides is an open-source privacy engineering platform for managing the fulfillment of data privacy requests in a runtime environment, and the enforcement of privacy regulations in code. A path traversal directory traversal vulnerability affects fides versions lower than version 2.15.1, allowing...

CVE-2023-34106

CVE-2023-34106 affects GLPI: versions starting from 0.68 up to 10.0.7/10.0.8 expose a rights check flaw on a file accessible to authenticated users, allowing access to the list of all users and their personal information. The advisory explicitly recommends upgrading to 10.0.8 for the patch. Conne...

Swedish Data Protection Authority Warns Companies Against Google Analytics Use

The Swedish data protection watchdog has warned companies against using Google Analytics due to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance, following similar moves by Austria, France, and Italy last year. The development comes in the aftermath of an audit initiated by the Swedish Authority for...

JVN#32739265: "NewsPicks" App uses a hard-coded API key for an external service

"NewsPicks" App for Android and "NewsPicks" App for iOS provided by NewsPicks, Inc. use a hard-coded API key for an external service CWE-798. Impact Data in the app may be analyzed and API key for an external service may be obtained. Note that the users of the app are not directly affected by thi...

CVE-2023-2623

CVE-2023-2623 affects the KiviCare WordPress plugin prior to 3.2.1. The flaw allows low-privilege users (e.g., subscribers) to retrieve other users’ sensitive data (e.g., email, hashed passwords) due to insufficient response data filtering. Root cause: information disclosure through unrestricted ...

Ransomware attackers email bemused students as leverage for a payout

The University of Manchester has fallen victim to a ransomware gang, who are currently applying an interesting twist to their attack. Blackmail and pressure are two ways to extract funds from potential victims. We see this in sextortion cases, as well as in social engineering. Here, the fraudster...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: syncthing-1.23.5-1.fc37

Syncthing replaces other file synchronization services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it's transmitted over the Internet. Using syncthing, that control is...

On the Need for an AI Public Option

Artificial intelligence will bring great benefits to all of humanity. But do we really want to entrust this revolutionary technology solely to a small group of US tech companies? Silicon Valley has produced no small number of moral disappointments. Google retired its "dont be evil" pledge before...

CVE-2023-33568

An issue in Dolibarr 16 before 16.0.5 allows unauthenticated attackers to perform a database dump and access a company's entire customer file, prospects, suppliers, and employee information if a contact file exists...

Public and free WiFi: Can I safely use it?

We've got into the habit of expecting internet access wherever we go. But data costs can be expensive, and out of your own home often the only WiFi available is public, passwordless and free. In security, we've been trained to carefully contemplate anything that's free, because, well, often when...

Security Bulletin: Data Privacy on Cloud Pak for Data is Vulnerable to Python DoS error (CVE-2022-45061)

Summary Python denial of service vulnerability is addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-45061 DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA RFC 3490 decoder. By sending a...

Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee Pass Comprehensive Privacy Laws

Its been a big month for US data privacy. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up to eight. No private right of action in any of those, which means its up to the states to enforce the laws...

CVE-2023-31101

CVE-2023-31101 affects Apache InLong 1.5.0–1.6.0 and allows users registered later to see data from deleted users due to insecure default initialization of resources. The vulnerability is categorized as an information disclosure issue; the publicly available fix is to upgrade to InLong 1.7.0 or c...

Why Telecoms Struggle with SaaS Security

The telecom industry has always been a tantalizing target for cybercriminals. The combination of interconnected networks, customer data, and sensitive information allows cybercriminals to inflict maximum damage through minimal effort. It's the breaches in telecom companies that tend to have a...

Why Telecoms Struggle with SaaS Security

The telecom industry has always been a tantalizing target for cybercriminals. The combination of interconnected networks, customer data, and sensitive information allows cybercriminals to inflict maximum damage through minimal effort. It's the breaches in telecom companies that tend to have a...

ChatGPT is Back in Italy After Addressing Data Privacy Concerns

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has officially made a return to Italy after the company met the data protection authority's demands ahead of April 30, 2023, deadline. The development was first reported by the Associated Press. OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, tweeted, "we're excited ChatGPT is...

Bearer - Code Security Scanning Tool (SAST) That Discover, Filter And Prioritize Security Risks And Vulnerabilities Leading To Sensitive Data Exposures (PII, PHI, PD)

Discover, filter, and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities impacting your code. Bearer is a static application security testing SAST tool that scans your source code and analyzes your data flows to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities leading to sensitive da...