USN-6493-1: hibagent update

On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the hibagent package has been updated to add IMDSv2 support, as IMDSv1 uses an insecure protocol and is no longer recommended. In addition, on all releases, hibagent has been updated to do nothing if ODH is configured...

cloud-init security, bug fix, and enhancement update

23.1.1-10.0.1 - Added missing services in rhel/systemd/cloud-init.service Orabug: 32183938 - Add IPv6 IMDS and dhcp6 support for Oracle Datasource Orabug: 35470783 - Increase retry value and add timeout for OCI Orabug: 35329883 - Fix log file permissions Orabug: 35302985 - Update detection logic...

Important: microcode_ctl

Issue Overview: An issue was found in redundant REX instruction prefix values affecting third generation Intel Xeon Scalable “Icelake“ processors. The issue may allow a local third-party actor using such instructions to cause a denial of service DOS or achieve privilege escalation. CVE-2023-23583...

Backup error: "The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported."

Challenge The backup of an EC2 instance fails with the following error: Processing "instance-name" failed: The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported. Please see the AWS Marketplace site for more information about supported instance types, regions, and operating...

Important: yum

Issue Overview: Amazon Linux customers may have experienced an issue with our repository metadata in all regions. During this time, EC2 instances accessing metadata from our repositories experienced 500 MB of increased disk usage. Affected Packages: yum Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon...

Restore to EC2 Error: "Failed to validate machine: Cannot find a suitable image for the restored machine."

Issue Resolved in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1 The issue documented in this article was resolved starting in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1. Veeam strongly encourages all customers to update to the latest version. Challenge A Restore to Amazon EC2 fails with the error: Failed to validate...

platform: ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availabili...

GHSA-WW3M-FFRM-QVQV Ansible may expose private key

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availabili...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-4237

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availabili...

CVE-2023-4237

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availabili...

Prometheus API Information Gather

This module utilizes Prometheus' API calls to gather information about the server's configuration, and targets. Fields which may contain credentials, or credential file names are then pulled out and printed. Targets may have a wealth of information, this module will print the following values whe...

Fedora: Security Advisory for moby-engine (FEDORA-2023-cf3551046d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora: Security Advisory for moby-engine (FEDORA-2023-9f5f1ef40a)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

PT-2023-9369

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible Automation Platform affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a flaw in the ec2 key module of the Ansible Automation Platform, which is connected to shortcomings in the authorization procedure. This flaw allow...

CLSA-2023-1691083401 Fix CVE(s): CVE-2022-3697

SECURITY UPDATE: improper handling of towercallback parameter in amazon.aws collection - debian/patches/CVE-2022-3697.patch: ec2instance - validate options on towercallback - CVE-2022-3697 Enable unit testing...

Researchers Uncover AWS SSM Agent Misuse as a Covert Remote Access Trojan

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new post-exploitation technique in Amazon Web Services AWS that allows the AWS Systems Manager Agent SSM Agent to be run as a remote access trojan on Windows and Linux environments "The SSM agent, a legitimate tool used by admins to manage their...

The Unrelenting Nature of TOITOIN Malware

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The TOITOIN malware campaign, targeting businesses in the LATAM region, employs sophisticated techniques and multi-stage infection chains with numerous malware samples disguised as compressed ZIP archive...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Nothing but .NET? Smashery continues to… smash it by updating our .NET assembly execution module. The original module allowed users to run a .NET exe as a thread within a process they created on a remote host. Smashery’s improvements let users run the executable within a thread of the process...

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,...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Cloud Fun With EC2 New ground was broken today with the addition of two PRs from community contributor sempervictus, also known as RageLtMan, who added the ability for Metasploit to establish sessions to EC2 instances using Amazon's SSM interface, which provides a public API to execute commands o...