UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3248

openhpi/Makefile.am in OpenHPI before 3.6.0 uses world-writable permissions for /var/lib/openhpi directory, which allows local users, when quotas are not properly setup, to fill the filesystem hosting /var/lib and cause a denial of service disk consumption...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

Authorization Bypass

kubernetes/kubernetes is vulnerable to authorization bypass. The library misconfigures the permissions required for access to a URI, allowing a malicious user to unauthorized access to the URI through the internet...

CVE-2017-14312

Nagios Core through 4.3.4 initially executes /usr/sbin/nagios as root but supports configuration options in which this file is owned by a non-root account and similarly can have nagios.cfg owned by a non-root account, which allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to this non-ro...

CVE-2017-12873

SimpleSAMLphp 1.7.0 through 1.14.10 might allow attackers to obtain sensitive information, gain unauthorized access, or have unspecified other impacts by leveraging incorrect persistent NameID generation when an Identity Provider IdP is misconfigured...

Authentication Bypass

simplesamlphp is vulnerable to authentication bypass. When the IdP is incorrectly configured it is possible for multiple users to be assigned a null value as a NameID, allowing a malicious user to authenticate themselves to another user's account...

Engineering Firm Leaks Data on Dell, SBC and Oracle

A Texas-based firm called Power Quality Engineering publicly exposed sensitive electrical infrastructure data on the public internet. Firms impacted by the leak were Dell Technologies, SBC, Freescale, Oracle, Texas Instruments and the City of Austin. Chris Vickery, cyber risk analyst at security...

NetworkRecon: PowerShell to Identify Network Vulnerabilities!

PenTestIT RSS Feed As PowerShell becomes more prevalent in the Windows environment, so will it's use for vulnerability assessment and penetration tests. I have covered a few of them earlier such as PowerSploit, PSAttack. However none of the ones I mentioned help you detect network vulnerabilities...

CloudFail - Utilize misconfigured DNS and old database records to find hidden IP's behind the CloudFlare network

CloudFail is a tactical reconnaissance tool which aims to gather enough information about a target protected by CloudFlare in the hopes of discovering the location of the server. Using Tor to mask all requests, the tool as of right now has 3 different attack phases. 1. Misconfigured DNS scan usin...

Petya Ransomware: What You Need to Know

On Tuesday, a variant of the ransomware "Petya" began propagating in several countries across Europe. This new variant leverages the EternalBlue exploit used in WannaCry, and also takes advantage of misconfigured permissions to spread throughout the network. EternalBlue is a leaked exploit...

CVE-2017-4970

An issue was discovered in Cloud Foundry Foundation cf-release v255 and Staticfile buildpack versions v1.4.0 - v1.4.3. A regression introduced in the Static file build pack causes the Staticfile.auth configuration to be ignored when the Static file file is not present in the application root...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Limited code execution vulnerability on a DoD website

A DoD website was misconfigured in a manner that could have allowed an attacker to execute some malicious code. @sp1d3rs was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by crafting a specially formatted URL. Thank you for notifying us of this vulnerability! This bug was an interesting one. I will writ...

WordPress Plugin Car Rental System 2.5 - SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Car Rental System v2.5 Date: 28/03/2017 Exploit Author: TAD GROUP Vendor Homepage: https://www.bestsoftinc.com/ Software Link: https://www.bestsoftinc.com/car-rental-system.html Version: 2.5 Contact: infoattad.group Website: https://tad.group Category: Web Application Exploits 1...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Information disclosure vulnerability on a DoD website

A DoD website was misconfigured in a manner that could have allowed an attacker to collect sensitive information about the web application. @tcpiplab was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by crafting a specially formatted URL. Thank you for notifying us of this vulnerability!...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Potentially sensitive information disclosure on a DoD website

A DoD website was misconfigured in a manner that could have potentially disclosed sensitive information. @scraps was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by searching for certain file types. Thanks @scraps!...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Information disclosure vulnerability on a DoD website

A Department of Defense website was misconfigured in a manner that could have exposed sensitive information. Thank you @jonbottarini for notifying us of this!...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Misconfigured user account settings on DoD website

A Department of Defense website was misconfigured in a manner that may have allowed a malicious user to reset, or steal login credentials of legitimate users. @mantis was able to demonstrate this vulnerability by testing the user account application of the website. Thanks @mantis!...

Over 27,000 MongoDB Databases Held For Ransom Within A Week

The ransomware attacks on poorly secured MongoDB installations have doubled in just a day. A hacker going by the handle Harak1r1 is accessing, copying and deleting unpatched or badly-configured MongoDB databases and then threatening administrators to ransom in exchange of the lost data. It all...

Alvosec: [ns2.████] Vulnerable to DNS Zone Transfer

This server is misconfigured, as a result allowed the consultant to initiate a zone transfer the following shows the output: ██████████. 3600 IN SOA ns1.██████████. webmaster.█████. 2017041813 ;serial 10800 ;refresh 3600 ;retry 604800 ;expire 3600 ;minimum ███. 3600 IN A ██████████ █████. 3600 IN...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Information disclosure vulnerability on a DoD website

A Department of Defense website was misconfigured in a manner that could have exposed sensitive information. Thank you @sp1d3rs for notifying us of this! It was a trivial Full Path Disclosure issue, but still worth reporting...