Bring Your Own Land (BYOL) – A Novel Red Teaming Technique

Introduction One of most significant recent developments in sophisticated offensive operations is the use of “Living off the Land” LotL techniques by attackers. These techniques leverage legitimate tools present on the system, such as the PowerShell scripting language, in order to execute attacks...

Security Bulletin: IBM InfoSphere Information Server is vulnerable to root privilege escalation (CVE-2015-1900)

Summary IBM InfoSphere Information Server could allow a local user to execute code with root privileges on the engine tier. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-1900 DESCRIPTION: IBM InfoSphere DataStage could allow a local user to bypass security and replace executables with malicious files tha...

CVE-2018-5173

The filename appearing in the "Downloads" panel improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel. Note: the dialog to open the file will show the full,...

CVE-2017-7821

A vulnerability where WebExtensions can download and attempt to open a file of some non-executable file types. This can be triggered without specific user interaction for the file download and open actions. This could be used to trigger known vulnerabilities in the programs that handle those...

Open redirect

The filename appearing in the "Downloads" panel improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel. Note: the dialog to open the file will show the full,...

CVE-2018-5173

The filename appearing in the "Downloads" panel improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel. Note: the dialog to open the file will show the full,...

massif code execution vulnerability

massif is a WebKit script written in JavaScript. A security vulnerability exists in massif, which originates when the program downloads an executable file over an unencrypted HTTP connection. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability by intercepting the response and replacing the requeste...

CVE-2018-5173

The filename appearing in the "Downloads" panel improperly renders some Unicode characters, allowing for the file name to be spoofed. This can be used to obscure the file extension of potentially executable files from user view in the panel. Note: the dialog to open the file will show the full,...

Information disclosure

A vulnerability in London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v77 for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to run executable files with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient implementation of access controls. The "Changelog" and "Help"...

CVE-2018-10190

A vulnerability in London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v77 for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to run executable files with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient implementation of access controls. The "Changelog" and "Help"...

CVE-2018-10190

A vulnerability in London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v77 for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to run executable files with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient implementation of access controls. The "Changelog" and "Help"...

CVE-2018-10190

CVE-2018-10190 concerns London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client for Windows v77. The issue is a local privilege escalation caused by insufficient access controls: using the system tray’s Changelog/Help context menu can spawn an elevated instance of the user’s default browser, ...

Microsoft Office: Suppress hyperlink warnings

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013hyperlinkwarnings.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Suppress hyperlink warnings Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program ...

Hola Insecure Service Privilege Vulnerability

Hola is a VPN software that supports anonymous web browsing. A security vulnerability exists in Hola version 1.79.859. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to alter or overwrite executable files with arbitrary code to elevate privileges...

Denial of service vulnerability in GNU binutils 'swap_std_reloc_in' function

GNU Binutils a.k.a. GNU Binary Utilities or binutils is a set of programming language utilities developed by the GNU Project to work with object files in a variety of formats, with connectors, assemblers, and other tools for object files and archives.The Binary File Descriptor BFD library a.k.a...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7568

The parsedie function in dwarf1.c in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library aka libbfd, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service integer overflow and application crash via an ELF file with corrupt dwarf1 debug information, as demonstrated by nm...

Update to add SHA-2 code signing support for Windows Server 2008 SP2

Update to add SHA-2 code signing support for Windows Server 2008 SP2 Summary This update provides support for the Secure Hash Algorithm-2 SHA-2 code signing and verification functionality in the 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 SP2 which includes the following: Support for...

GNU Binutils Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-34507)

GNU Binutils is a set of programming tools for creating and managing binary programs, object files, libraries, profile data and assembly source code. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the aoutgetexternalsymbols function in aoutx.h in the Binary File Descriptor BFD library used in GNU...

Mozilla Firefox WebExtensions can download and open non-executable files without user interaction(CVE-2017-7821)

CVE-2017-7821 "browser.downloads addon feature may be used for RCE" Steps: 1. Go to 'about:debugging' 2. Unpack attached PoC somewhere 3. Back in 'about:debugging' choose 'Load temp addon' and choose the poc 4. jar file is automatically downloaded and executed. We are able to download and execute...

USN-3435-1 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 read uninitialized memory, obtain sensitive information, bypass phishing and malware protection, spoof the origin in modal dialogs,...