Korea In The Crosshairs

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An. A one year review of campaigns performed by an actor with multiple campaigns mainly linked to South Korean targets. Executive Summary This article exposes the malicious activities of Group 123...

Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in eHR Human Resource Management System

The whole eHR human resource management system is a series of enterprise integrated management software produced by the whole software, which provides excellent software solutions for the development and management of enterprise personnel resources. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in...

SUSE-SU-2017:3440-1 Security update for java-1_7_1-ibm

This update for java-171-ibm fixes the following issues: CVE-2017-10349: 'Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Serialization. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u161, 7u151, 8u144 and 9; Java SE Embedded: 8u144; JRockit:...

The vulnerability of HMI/SCADA systems like InTouch Machine Edition and InduSoft Web Studio arises from buffer overflows in the stack. This allows attackers to escalate their privileges and execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of HMI/SCADA systems such as InTouch Machine Edition and InduSoft Web Studio arises due to buffer overflows in the stack. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code...

ROKRAT Reloaded

This post was authored by Warren Mercer, Paul Rascagneres and with contributions from Jungsoo An.Executive SummaryEarlier this year, Talos published 2 articles concerning South Korean threats. The first one was about the use of a malicious HWP document which dropped downloaders used to retrieve...

Motherboard Digital Security Guide

This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders." There are too many of these...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16643

The parsehidreportdescriptor function in drivers/input/tablet/gtco.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16533

The usbhidparse function in drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device...

The Science of Interrogation

Fascinating article about two psychologists who are studying interrogation techniques. Now, two British researchers are quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation. Earlier this year, in a meeting room at the University of Liverpool, I watched a video of the Diola interview...

CVE-2017-10403

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics component of Oracle Hospitality Applications subcomponent: iQuery. Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.1 and 9.0.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2017-10354

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PRTL Interaction Hub component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products subcomponent: Enterprise Portal. The supported version that is affected is 9.1.00. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2017-10325

Vulnerability in the Oracle Common Applications Calendar component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: Applications Calendar. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.6 and 12.2.7. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

CVE-2017-10306

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products subcomponent: Security. The supported version that is affected is 9.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM...

CVE-2017-10277

Vulnerability in the MySQL Connectors component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Connector/Net. Supported versions that are affected are 6.9.9 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Connectors...

Code injection

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products subcomponent: Core. Supported versions that are affected are 8.54, 8.55 and 8.56. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise PeopleSoft...

Code injection

Vulnerability in the Oracle Advanced Outbound Telephony component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: Setup and Configuration. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.5, 12.2.6 and 12.2.7. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attack...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hospitality Reporting and Analytics component of Oracle Hospitality Applications subcomponent: iQuery. Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.1 and 9.0.0. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle BI Publisher component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Core Formatting API. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0 and 11.1.1.9.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle ...

Code injection

Vulnerability in the Siebel UI Framework component of Oracle Siebel CRM subcomponent: UIF Open UI. Supported versions that are affected are 16.0 and 17.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Siebel UI Framework. Successful...