Fixing the Weakest Link — The Passwords — in Cybersecurity Today

Password security has long been an issue for businesses and their cybersecurity standards. Account passwords are often the weakest link in the overall security posture for many organizations. Many companies have used Microsoft's default password policies for decades. While these can be customized...

python: Cookie domain check returns incorrect results

http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy.domainreturnok in Lib/http/cookiejar.py in Python before 3.7.3 does not correctly validate the domain: it can be tricked into sending existing cookies to the wrong server. An attacker may abuse this flaw by using a server with a hostname that has another valid hostnam...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12550

When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 inclusive is configured to use an ACL file, and that ACL file is empty, or contains only comments or blank lines, then Mosquitto will treat this as though no ACL file has been defined and use a default allow policy. The new behaviour is to have an empty...

CVE-2018-1956

IBM Security Identity Manager 6.0.0 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 153628...

SUSE-SU-2018:3072-1 Security update for ImageMagick

This update for ImageMagick fixes the following issues: - Allow writing PS, PS2, PS3, XPS, EPS and PDF, disable reading these filetypes only by default security policy bsc1105592...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1313

In Apache Derby 10.3.1.4 to 10.14.1.0, a specially-crafted network packet can be used to request the Derby Network Server to boot a database whose location and contents are under the user's control. If the Derby Network Server is not running with a Java Security Manager policy file, the attack is...

CVE-2016-7030

FreeIPA uses a default password policy that locks an account after 5 unsuccessful authentication attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by locking out the account in which system services run on...

CVE-2017-1196

IBM BigFix Compliance TEMA SUAv1 SCA SCM 1.9.70 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 123671...

Sun J2EE/RI 1.4,Sun JDK 1.4.2 JDBC Database Insecure Default Policy Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9444/info It has been reported that multiple JDBC database implementations include insecure default security policies. This could expose vulnerable databases to denial of service attacks. This could also permit remote...

Apache Tomcat's default security policy is too open

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by...

Apache Tomcat's default security policy is too open

The default catalina.policy in the JULI logging component in Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 through 5.5.25 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.15 does not restrict certain permissions for web applications, which allows attackers to modify logging configuration options and overwrite arbitrary files, as demonstrated by...

CVE-2005-4418

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2005-4418

util-vserver before 0.30.208-1 with kernel-patch-vserver before 1.9.5.5 and 2.x before 2.3 for Debian GNU/Linux sets a default policy that trusts unknown capabilities, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities...

CVE-2005-4418

util-vserver before 0.30.208-1 with kernel-patch-vserver before 1.9.5.5 and 2.x before 2.3 for Debian GNU/Linux sets a default policy that trusts unknown capabilities, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities...

CVE-2005-4418

util-vserver before 0.30.208-1 with kernel-patch-vserver before 1.9.5.5 and 2.x before 2.3 for Debian GNU/Linux sets a default policy that trusts unknown capabilities, which could allow local users to conduct unauthorized activities...