XML External Entity (XXE)

phpoffice/common is vulnerable to XML external entity XXE attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the insecure defaults where external entities were allowed, making XXE attacks possible...

Fixed in Apache Tomcat 8.0.53

Low: host name verification missing in WebSocket client CVE-2018-8034 The host name verification when using TLS with the WebSocket client was missing. It is now enabled by default. This was fixed in revision 1833759. This issue was reported publicly on 11 June 2018 and formally announced as a...

Insecure Defaults

Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to insecure defaults. The CORS filter provided by default is insecure as it enables supportsCredentials for all origins. This can allow a malicious user unauthorized access to sensitive resources...

Insecure Defaults

Apache Derby is vulnerable to insecure defaults. An attacker can send network packets to a Derby Network Server to maliciously boot a database under their control control. The attack is only possible when the Java Security Manager policy file permits the reading of database locations, which is th...

Information Disclosure Through Insecure Defaults

github.com/heketi/heketi is vulnerable to information disclosure through insecure defaults. The application by default sets the /etc/heketi/heketi.json as world readable, allowing a malicious user to access sensitive information contained in it such as passwords...

XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Through Insecure Defaults

dom4j is vulnerable to XML External Entity Injection. The library by default uses the SAXReader to parse documents without using the setFeature function in it to disable doctype and entities, allowing a malicious user to pass a document to execute an XML Injection attack...

Insecure Defaults

akka-actor has insecure defaults. An attacker can leverage an ActorSystem exposed over TCP to perform Java deserialization attacks. By default Java deserialization is enabled and the documentation wasn't complete on how to disable the function.These attacks can be performed if the ActorSystem has...

Insecure Defaults

Moodle is vulnerable to insecure defaults. The library itself uses a hardcoded key for the rc4encrypt and rc4decrypt functions, making it easier for a malicious user to decrypt sensitive information by reading Moodle's sourcecode. The hardcoded password was set to nfgjeingjk...

Insecure Defaults

chef is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. The library has a local socket mode on port 8889 that is open by default. This can allow a malicious user to connect to that socket and upload an arbitrary file such as the rootkit cookbook...

Insecure Defaults

sosreport is vulnerable to insecure defaults. The library creates temporary archive files with world-readable permissions, allowing a malicious user to extract these files and read their contents. This vulnerability exists due to a regression in the default behavior of sosreport...

Insecure Defaults

Netty Handler is insecure by default. Netty doesn't set the HTTP endpointIdentificationAlgorithm by default which means that the hostname verification is not enabled unless specifically turned on by the application...

SSL/TLS MitM vulnerability due to insecure defaults

All versions of rust-openssl prior to 0.9.0 contained numerous insecure defaults including off-by-default certificate verification and no API to perform hostname verification. Unless configured correctly by a developer, these defaults could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...

RUSTSEC-2016-0001 SSL/TLS MitM vulnerability due to insecure defaults

All versions of rust-openssl prior to 0.9.0 contained numerous insecure defaults including off-by-default certificate verification and no API to perform hostname verification. Unless configured correctly by a developer, these defaults could allow an attacker to perform man-in-the-middle attacks...

Insecure Defaults Leads to Potential MITM

Overview Affected versions of ezseed-transmission download and run a script over an HTTP connection. An attacker in a privileged network position could launch a Man-in-the-Middle attack and intercept the script, replacing it with malicious code, completely compromising the system running...