3 key resources to accelerate your passwordless journey

Every organization today faces password-related challenges—phishing campaigns, productivity loss, and password management costs to name just a few. The risks now outweigh the benefits when it comes to passwords. Even the strongest passwords are easily phish-able and vulnerable to attacks, such as...

Telegram-powered bots circumvent 2FA

Two-factor authentication is a great way to protect your online accounts, and we always recommend you turn it on. But where users put up walls, you can be sure there are cybercriminals trying to break them down. Yesterday, security intelligence firm, Intel 147, revealed it had noticed an uptick o...

A6: Security Misconfiguration ❗️ — Top 10 OWASP 2017

A6: Security Misconfiguration ❗️ — Top 10 OWASP 2017 Introduction A6: Security Misconfiguration What is Security Misconfiguration? I believe this name was chosen to be as ambiguous as possible for one of the Top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities. It can encompass anything and everything related to...

WP Mega Menu < 1.4.0 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Post Access

The plugin does not properly check for capability and CSRF due to a logic flaw, in its exporttheme and exportwpmegamenunavmenu methods, hooked to admininit. As a result, unauthenticated users can call them and access arbitrary post data, including password protected or private ones. PoC Access an...

Security update for grafana-piechart-panel (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for grafana-piechart-panel Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:3175-1 Rating: moderate References: 1172125 Cross-References: CVE-2020-13429 CVSS scores: CVE-2020-13429 NVD : 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVE-2020-13429 SUSE: 6.4...

Microsoft makes a bold move towards a password-less future

In a recent blog Microsoft announced that as of September 15, 2021 you can completely remove the password from your Microsoft account and use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key, or a verification code sent to your phone or email to sign in to Microsoft apps and service...

golang: net: lookup functions may return invalid host names

A flaw was found in Go. The LookupCNAME, LookupSRV, LookupMX, LookupNS, and LookupAddr functions in the net package and methods on the Resolver type, may return arbitrary values retrieved from DNS, allowing injection of unexpected contents. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integri...

The passwordless future is here for your Microsoft account

Nobody likes passwords. They’re inconvenient. They’re a prime target for attacks. Yet for years they’ve been the most important layer of security for everything in our digital lives—from email to bank accounts, shopping carts to video games. We are expected to create complex and unique passwords,...

Apache Dubbo 格式化字符串错误漏洞

Apache Dubbo is a lightweight Java-based RPC remote procedure call framework from the Apache Foundation. It provides interface-based remote calling, fault tolerance and load balancing, and automatic service registration and discovery.A code injection vulnerability exists in Apache Dubbo, which...

Security update for openssl-1_0_0 (low)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for openssl-100 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2994-1 Rating: low References: 1189521 Cross-References: CVE-2021-3712 CVSS scores: CVE-2021-3712 SUSE: 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.3 An update that...

ROS-2-1638

2.1638 PyYAML parser vulnerability CVE-2020-14343 1. Vulnerability description: A vulnerability in the PyYAML parser, is related to insufficient validation of user input when processing unreliable YAML files using the fullload method or the FullLoader loader. Exploitation of the vulnerability...

ROS-2-1645

2.1645 Mozilla Firefox browser vulnerability CVE-2021-29970, CVE-2021-29976 1. Vulnerability description: CVE-2021-29970 A vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox browser, is related to a release error in accessibility functions when processing HTML content. Exploitation of the vulnerability could...

ROS-2-1960

2.1960 Mozilla Firefox browser vulnerability CVE-2021-29970, CVE-2021-29976 1. Vulnerability description: CVE-2021-29970 A vulnerability in the Mozilla Firefox browser, is related to a release error in accessibility functions when processing HTML content. Exploitation of the vulnerability could...

ROS-2-2192

2.2192 VLC vulnerabilities with specially designed playlists 1. Vulnerability description: A remote user can create a specially crafted file that can cause various issues. It is possible to trigger remote code execution through a specially created playlist and trick the user into interacting with...

ROS-2-1917

2.1917 Vulnerability in SpamAssassin spam filtering tool CVE-2020-1946 1. Vulnerability Description: CVE-2020-1946 A vulnerability in the SpamAssassin spam filtering tool, is related to improper input validation when processing rule configuration .cf files. Exploitation of the vulnerability could...

ROS-2-2093

2.2093 PyYAML parser vulnerability CVE-2020-14343 1. Vulnerability description: A vulnerability in the PyYAML parser, is related to insufficient validation of user input when processing unreliable YAML files using the fullload method or the FullLoader loader. Exploitation of the vulnerability...

How to Exploit SQL Server Using OLE Automation

As part of the Imperva Research Labs we have the opportunity to examine various security scenarios. In this post, we will consider database security on SQL Server. One standard method that security practitioners use to protect databases is deploying honeypots and waiting for hackers to take the...

Advantech WebAccess

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerability: Stack-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow remote code execution. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1...

Security update for ffmpeg (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for ffmpeg Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:2919-1 Rating: important References: 1129714 1186849 1186859 1186861 1186863 1189142 1189348 1189350 Cross-References: CVE-2019-9721 CVE-2020-21688 CVE-2020-21697 CVE-2020-22046 CVE-2020-22048 CVE-2020-22049...

hw: L1D Cache Eviction Sampling

A microarchitectural timing flaw was found on some Intel processors. A corner case exists where data in-flight during the eviction process can end up in the “fill buffers” and not properly cleared by the MDS mitigations. The fill buffer contents which were expected to be blank can be inferred usi...