APT Topic Summary Report: Cisco Talos Year in Review 2022

State-sponsored or state-aligned advanced persistent threats APTs adapted to the changing geopolitical landscape in 2022. Cisco Talos observed several offensive cyber campaigns linked to several groups stemming from Russia, Iran, China, North Korea, and countries in the Indian subcontinent. These...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerablity in Apache Log4j may affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring (CVE-2021-4104)

Summary The following security issue has been identified in components related to IBM Tivoli Monitoring ITM portal server and client. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-4104 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerablity in Apache Log4j may affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring installed WebSphere Application Server (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary The following security issue has been identified in the WebSphere Application Server included as part of IBM Tivoli Monitoring ITM portal server. Note that log4j 2.x is not actually used by ITM but is present as part of the Tivoli Portal Server component installation as it prereqs and...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installed WebSphere Application Server including Log4j

Summary The following security issues has been identified in the WebSphere Application Server included as part of IBM Tivoli Monitoring ITM portal server. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-45105 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to protect fr...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Apache Log4j impact IBM Cloud Application Business Insights (CVE-2021-45105, CVE-2021-45046)

Summary IBM Cloud Application Business Insights ICABI is vulnerable to denial of service due to Apache Log4j CVE-2021-45105 and arbitrary code execution due to Apache Log4j CVE-2021-45046 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-45105 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j is vulnerable to a denial of service,...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Log4j affects IBM Cloud Application Business Insights CVE-2021-44228

Summary Vulnerabilities in Log4j CVE-2021-44228 affects IBM Cloud Application Business Insights Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to protect against attacker controlled...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

Used for testing the log4j2 environment. Any issues will be th...

Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking

Despite mitigation, one of the worst bugs in internet history is still prevalent—and being exploited...

Intel Data Center Manager 5.1 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The latest version 5.1 and all prior versions of Intel's Data Center Manager are vulnerable to a local privileges escalation vulnerability using the application user "dcm" used to run the web application and the rest interface. An attacker who gained remote code execution using this dcm user i.e....

Log4j: One Year Later

One year ago, the Log4j remote code execution vulnerability known as Log4Shell CVE-2021-44228 was announced. The critical severity level vulnerability in a logging framework used across virtually all Java environments quickly set the internet on fire when it was released and exploited. It’s...

Amazon Linux 2022 : log4j (ALAS2022-2022-225)

The version of log4j installed on the remote host is prior to 2.17.2-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-225 advisory. - Apache Log4j2 2.0-beta9 through 2.15.0 excluding security releases 2.12.2, 2.12.3, and 2.3.1 JNDI features used in...

Intel Data Center Manager 5.1 Local Privilege Escalation

RCE Security Advisory https://www.rcesecurity.com 1. ADVISORY INFORMATION ======================= Product: Intel Data Center Manager Vendor URL: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/tools/data-center-manager-console/overview.html Type: Incorrect Use of Privileged APIs CWE-648 Date...

Apache Solr 7.4.0 <= 7.7.3 / 8.0.0 <= 8.11.0 RCE

The version of Apache Solr running on the remote host is at least 7.4.0 through 7.7.3 or 8.0.0 through 8.11.0. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to using a bundled version of the Apache Log4J library vulnerable to RCE. For full impact and additional detail...

Security Bulletin: TADDM log4j vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 (Publicly disclosed vulnerability)

Summary Apache log4j version 1 is vulnerable to CVE-2021-4104 Publicly disclosed vulnerability used by IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-4104 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system,...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor is affected by Apache Log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228)

Summary Log4j is used by IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor for generating logs in some components and tools. This bulletin provides a remediation for the reported CVE-2021-44228 by upgrading IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor version to 2.5.1. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-44228 DESCRIPTION:...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities Affect IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor

Summary IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor has addressed multiple security vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-35517 DESCRIPTION: Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out of memory error when allocating large amounts of memory. By persuading a...

Identify Server-Side Attacks Using Qualys Periscope

Qualys previously announced the introduction of Qualys Periscope in 2020. This technology allows Qualys Web Application Scanning WAS to detect out-of-band vulnerabilities such as server-side request forgery SSRF. Qualys Periscope provides confirmed detections for additional vulnerabilities, such ...

Vulnerable SDK components lead to supply chain risks in IoT and OT environments

December 8, 2022 update - Reflected additional research on Boa-related CVEs and updated supply chain diagram. Vulnerabilities in network components, architecture files, and developer tools have become increasingly popular attack vectors to gain access into secure networks and devices. External...

Security Bulletin: IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights impacted by Apache Log4j vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-23305)

Summary IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights is affected by the Apache Log4j vulnerability through the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x which accepts a SQL statement as a configuration parameter. When JDBCAppender is specifically configured to use, malicious values could be inserted. This allo...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities from log4j-core-2.16.0.jar affect IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2021-44832, CVE-2021-45105)

Summary log4j-core-2.16.0.jar is vulnerable to remote code execution RCE attack and uncontrolled recursion. This is shipped in Log Analysis. The fix includes Apache Log4j core 2.17.1 Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2021-44832 DESCRIPTION: Apache Log4j could allow a remote attacker with permission...