The vulnerability of the Adobe Reader DC PDF viewer program, which allows a hacker to circumvent access restrictions

The vulnerability of the Adobe Reader DC PDF viewer program is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to bypass restrictions on access to the JavaScript API...

Double the bang for your buck with Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix have announced that they are extending their current free offering of the network security scan, part of their cloud-based web and network vulnerability scanner. Those signing up for a trial of the online version of Acunetix vulnerability scanner will now be able to scan their perimeter...

CNIL CookieViz Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

CNIL CookieViz suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. CNIL CookieViz XSS + SQL injection leading to user pwnage Product link: https://github.com/LaboCNIL/CookieViz CVE references CVE-2014-8351, CVE-2014-8352 TL;DR ----- Since October 2014, the French National...

Find Misconfigurations: unix-privesc-check

Unix-privesc-check is a script that runs on Unix systems tested on Solaris 9, HPUX 11, Various Linuxes, FreeBSD 6.2. It tries to find misconfigurations that could allow local unprivilged users to escalate privileges to other users or to access local apps e.g. databases. It is written as a single...

Solaris 10 Patch Cluster File Clobber

Solaris 10 patch cluster suffers from a file clobber vulnerability in /tmp. File clobbering vulnerability in Solaris 10 patch cluster 3/27/2013 Larry W. Cashdollar @larry0 Hello, The 147147-26 patch creates a CLEANUP file in /tmp that is vulnerable to symlink attacks: The contents of the file...

htaccess_methods

This plugin finds .htaccess misconfigurations in the LIMIT configuration parameter. This plugin is based on a paper written by Frame and madjoker from kernelpanik.org. The paper is called : "htaccess: bilbao method exposed" The idea of the technique and the plugin is to exploit common...

blank_body

This plugin finds HTTP responses with a blank body, these responses may indicate errors or misconfigurations in the web application or the web server. Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...

code_disclosure

This plugin greps every page in order to find code disclosures. Basically it greps for ?.? and %.% using the re module and reports findings. Code disclosures are usually generated due to web server misconfigurations, or wierd web application "features". Plugin type Grep Options This plugin doesnt...

domain_dot

This plugin finds misconfigurations in the virtual host settings by sending a specially crafted request with a trailing dot in the domain name. For example, if the input for this plugin is http://host.tld/ , the plugin will perform a request to http://host.tld./ . In some misconfigurations, the...

Fedora 17 : wordpress-3.5.1-1.fc17 (2013-1692)

WordPress 3.5.1 is now available. Version 3.5.1 is the first maintenance release of 3.5, fixing 37 bugs. It is also a security release for all previous WordPress versions. Which include : - Editor: Prevent certain HTML elements from being unexpectedly removed or modified in rare cases. - Media: F...

UNC-Charlotte Data Breaches Expose 350,000 Social Security Numbers and Much More

Confidential data, including bank account and Social Security numbers for some 350,000 University of North Carolina-Charlotte students, staff and faculty, were accidentally exposed — some for almost 15 years — due to a system misconfiguration and incorrect access settings that made electronic dat...

Plown : Security scanner for Plone CMS

Plown : Security scanner for Plone CMS Despite the fact that Plone is one of the most secure CMS, even the most secure system can be penetrated due to misconfigurations, use of weak passwords and if the admins never apply the patches released. Plown has been developed during penetration tests on...

The Dangers of Second-Order Vulnerabilities

SAN FRANCISCO–There are dozens of new bugs discovered every week in popular applications, and many of them are painted as critical flaws that need to be patched immediately lest you risk the wrath of the attackers. However, in many cases, it’s not necessarily those highly publicized flaws that wi...

SureBackup Ping Test Timed Out

Challenge A VM or group of VMs fail to pass the SureBackup Ping Test. Solution Below is a list of the most commonly observed causes of Ping Test failures and solutions for each. A router exists between the Veeam Server and Virtual Lab. The vNIC for the Isolated Network is misconfigured. The...

setusercontext() privilege escalation in BSD systems

Multiple application misbihave if different limits are set via setusercontext, resulting in different exploitation scenarios...

Profense Web Application Firewall XSRF / XSS

Written By Michael Brooks Special thanks to str0ke! Affects: Profense Web Application Firewall XSRF and XSS Version: 2.6.2 download http://www.armorlogic.com/downloadsoftware.html "Defenses against all OWASP Top Ten vulnerabilities" Too bad it doesn't defend its self against all of these...

Information disclosure

ftpd.c in 1 wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and 2 ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by ...

CVE-2008-1668

ftpd.c in 1 wu-ftpd 2.4.2 and 2 ftpd in HP HP-UX B.11.11 assigns uid 0 to the FTP client in certain operating-system misconfigurations in which PAM authentication can succeed even though no passwd entry is available for a user, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges, as demonstrated by ...

Windows Access Control Demystified

Hello everybody, We have constructed a logical model of Windows XP access control, in a declarative but executable Datalog format. We have built a scanner that reads access-control configuration information from the Windows registry, file system, and service control manager database, and feeds ra...