Microsoft Windows 10: Allow Extensions (Edge)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winedgeextensions.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Allow Extensions Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you...

CVE-2018-6667

Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Web Gateway 7.8.1.0 through 7.8.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Java management extensions JMX...

CVE-2018-6667

Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Web Gateway 7.8.1.0 through 7.8.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Java management extensions JMX...

CVE-2018-6667 McAfee Web Gateway - Authentication Bypass vulnerability

Authentication Bypass vulnerability in the administrative user interface in McAfee Web Gateway 7.8.1.0 through 7.8.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Java management extensions JMX...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot, or PythonBot, t...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot , or PythonBot ,...

OpenJDK: unbounded memory allocation during deserialization in TabularDataSupport (JMX, 8189985)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: JMX. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u181, 7u171, 8u162 and 10; Java SE Embedded: 8u161; JRockit: R28.3.17. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Framework component. (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9843)

Summary IBM Tivoli Monitoring uses zlib compression library in both the General services library and the File Transfer component. This bulletin address several reported vulnerabilities in the zlib compression library. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-9840 DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a...

McAfee Web Gateway Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

McAfee Web Gateway MWG is a security gateway product from McAfee USA. The product provides threat protection, application control, and data loss prevention. An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the management user interface in McAfee MWG. A remote attacker could exploit this...

FreeBSD : password-store -- GPG parsing vulnerabilities (53eb9e1e-7014-11e8-8b1f-3065ec8fd3ec)

Jason A. Donenfeld reports : Markus Brinkmann discovered that the parsing of gpg command line output with regexes isn't anchored to the beginning of the line, which means an attacker can generate a malicious key that simply has the verification string as part of its username. This has a number of...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

Table of Contents A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Isolated But Talkative Worlds A Quick Disclaimer Home is Where the manifest.json Is - The Basic Extension Layout The Extension Architecture, Namespace Isolation and the DOM The Same Origin Policy SOP in the Chrome Extension Wor...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Chrome extension security and methodologies for auditing Chrome extensions for vulnerabilities appears to be a topic with shockingly little prior art. Especially when compared to other platforms such as Electron, which have had extension researc...

Google Blocks Chrome Extension Installations From 3rd-Party Sites

You probably have come across many websites that let you install browser extensions without ever going to the official Chrome web store. It's a great way for users to install an extension, but now Google has decided to remove the ability for websites to offer "inline installation" of Chrome...

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-2018-5135

WebExtensions can bypass normal restrictions in some circumstances and use "browser.tabs.executeScript" to inject scripts into contexts where this should not be allowed, such as pages from other WebExtensions or unprivileged "about:" pages. This vulnerability affects Firefox 59...

CVE-2017-5428

An integer overflow in "createImageBitmap" was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability disables the experimental extensions to the "createImageBitmap" API. This function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer. Thi...

Design/Logic Flaw

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects...

Integer overflow

An integer overflow in "createImageBitmap" was reported through the Pwn2Own contest. The fix for this vulnerability disables the experimental extensions to the "createImageBitmap" API. This function runs in the content sandbox, requiring a second vulnerability to compromise a user's computer. Thi...

Privilege escalation

WebExtension scripts can use the "data:" protocol to affect pages loaded by other web extensions using this protocol, leading to potential data disclosure or privilege escalation in affected extensions. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 45.7 and Firefox 51...

CVE-2017-5393

The "mozAddonManager" allows for the installation of extensions from the CDN for addons.mozilla.org, a publicly accessible site. This could allow malicious extensions to install additional extensions from the CDN in combination with an XSS attack on Mozilla AMO sites. This vulnerability affects...