Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect IBM WIoTP MessageGateway (CVE-2020-2604, CVE-2020-2659)

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8.0 used by IBM WIoTP MessageGateway. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2020: CVE-2020-2604, CVE-2020-2659 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-2604 DESCRIPTION: An...

Afternoon Cyber Tea—The State of Cybersecurity: How did we get here? What does it mean?

Every year the number and scale of cyberattacks grows. Marc Goodman, a global security strategist, futurist, and author of the book, Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, thinks a lot about how we got here and what it means, which is why he w...

CVE-2020-4207

IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, and 5.0.0.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling a failed HTTP request with specific content in the headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a...

Buffer overflow

IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, and 5.0.0.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling a failed HTTP request with specific content in the headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a...

CVE-2020-4207

CVE-2020-4207 affects IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway (versions 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, 5.0.0.2). The vulnerability is a buffer overflow caused by improper bounds checking while processing a failed HTTP request with specific header content. A remote attacker could trigger a buffer overflow to e...

CVE-2020-4207

IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway 2.0.0.x, 5.0.0.0, 5.0.0.1, and 5.0.0.2 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when handling a failed HTTP request with specific content in the headers. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a...

LoRaWAN for IoT: Beware Encryption Misconfigurations and Security Pitfalls

UPDATE The LoRaWAN protocol, which efficiently supports low-power wireless devices over wide area networks, has become standard in the world of the industrial internet of things IoT. One of its benefits is its support for end-to-end encryption. However, researchers are warning that while LoRaWAN...

CVE-2019-15607

CVE-2019-15607 is a stored XSS vulnerability in the node-red npm package (versions

Mandatory IoT Security in the Offing with U.K. Proposal

The U.K. government has unveiled a proposed law aimed at securing internet of things IoT devices, which have historically been riddled with basic security issues. The drafted law, announced on Monday, comprises three main mandates for IoT manufacturers. First, all consumer IoT device passwords mu...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson IoT MessageGateway Server is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-4207)

Summary IBM Watson IoT MessageGateway Server is vulnerable to a buffer overflow isse that can result in denial of service and possible code execution. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4207 DESCRIPTION: IBM Watson IoT Message Gateway is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper boun...

Fake Smart Factory Honeypot Highlights New Attack Threats

A honeypot set up to observe the current security landscape in smart manufacturing systems observed numerous threats—including cryptomining malware and ransomware—in just a few months, highlighting the new threats that industrial control systems ICS face with increased exposure to the internet...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Liberty affects IBM WIoTP MessageGateway

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Liberty that affects IBM WIoTP MessageGateway. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4305 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by the improper setting of a cooki...

The State of Vulnerabilities in 2019

As a web application firewall provider, part of our job at Imperva is to continually monitor for new security vulnerabilities. To do this, we use internal software that collects information from various data sources such as vulnerability databases, newsletters, forums, social media and more,...

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New Muhstik Botnet Attacks Target Tomato Routers

A new variant of the Muhstik botnet has appeared, this time with scanner technology that for the first time can brute-force web authentication to attack routers using Tomato open-source firmware, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 discovered the new variant...

Half a Million IoT Device Passwords Published

It's a list of easy-to-guess passwords for IoT devices on the Internet as recently as last October and November. Useful for anyone putting together a bot network: A hacker has published this week a massive list of Telnet credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers, and IoT Internet of...

Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices

A hacker has published a list of credentials for more than 515,000 servers, home routers and other Internet of Things IoT devices online on a popular hacking forum in what’s being touted as the biggest leak of Telnet passwords to date, according to a published report. The leak—revealed in a repor...

CVE-2019-14008

Possible null pointer dereference issue in location assistance data processing due to missing null check on resources before using it in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile in MDM9150, MDM9607, MDM9650, SDM660, SDM845, SM8150, SM8250, SXR2130...

CVE-2019-14023

String format issue will occur while processing HLOS data as there is no user input validation to ensure inputs are properly NULL terminated before string copy in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in MDM9607, Nicobar,...

CVE-2019-14005

Buffer overflow occur while playing the clip which is nonstandard due to lack of check of size duration in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music, Snapdragon...