Assessing risk for the May 2014 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 13 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six have a maximum severity rating of Important. The table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environmen...

New Internet Explorer Zero Day Used in Targeted Attacks

There’s a new zero-day vulnerability in many of the current versions of Internet Explorer and is being used in active attacks right now. The exploit that’s in use has the ability to bypass both DEP and ASLR and researchers say it’s being used by a known APT group. Microsoft has issued an advisory...

WordPress Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin 5.0.3 CSRF / XSS

WordPress Quick Page/Post Redirect plugin version 5.0.3 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Details ================ Software: Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin Version: 5.0.3 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ Adviso...

Twitget 3.3.1 Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting

Twitget version 3.3.1 suffers from cross site request forgery and cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Details ================ Software: Twitget Version: 3.3.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitget/ Advisory ID: dxw-1970-435 CVE: CVE-2014-2559 CVSS: 6.4 Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A...

WordPress Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin 5.0.3 CSRF / XSS

Details ================ Software: Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin Version: 5.0.3 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ Advisory ID: dxw-1970-1091 CVE: CVE-2014-2598 CVSS: 6.8 Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Description ================ CSRF and stored XSS in...

Twitget 3.3.1 Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting

Details ================ Software: Twitget Version: 3.3.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/twitget/ Advisory ID: dxw-1970-435 CVE: CVE-2014-2559 CVSS: 6.4 Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Description ================ CSRF/XSS vulnerability in Twitget 3.3.1 Vulnerability ================ I...

BlackBerry Z 10 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BlackBerry Z 10 suffers from a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in qconnDoor. BlackBerry Z 10 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability 1. Timeline --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2013-06-23: Vendor has been contacted. 2013-06-24: Vendor response. 2013-06-27: Vendor...

WordPress Plugin Ajax Pagination 1.1 - Local File Inclusion

WordPress Plugin Ajax Pagination 1.1 - Local File Inclusion Details ================ Software: Ajax Pagination twitter Style Version: 1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-pagination/ CVSS: 9.3 High; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Description ================ End-user exploitable local file...

WordPress Plugin Ajax Pagination 1.1 - Local File Inclusion

Details ================ Software: Ajax Pagination twitter Style Version: 1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-pagination/ CVSS: 9.3 High; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Description ================ End-user exploitable local file inclusion vulnerability in Ajax Pagination twitter Style 1....

Ajax Pagination 1.1 Local File Inclusion

Details ================ Software: Ajax Pagination twitter Style Version: 1.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/ajax-pagination/ CVSS: 9.3 High; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Description ================ End-user exploitable local file inclusion vulnerability in Ajax Pagination twitter Style 1....

GD Star Rating 1.9.22 XSS / CSRF / SQL Injection

Details ================ Software: GD Star Rating Version: 1.9.22 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-star-rating/ CVSS: 8.5 High; AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C Description ================ XSS, CSRF and blind SQL injection in GD Star Rating 1.9.22 Vulnerability ================ This plugin is...

Security Advisory 2953095: recommendation to stay protected and for detections

Today, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 to notify customers of a vulnerability in Microsoft Word. At this time, we are aware of limited, targeted attacks directed at Microsoft Word 2010. This blog will discuss mitigations and temporary defensive strategies that will help customers to...

Weak Early Random PRNG Threatens iOS 7 Kernel Mitigations

VANCOUVER – A revamped early random number generator in iOS 7 is weaker than its vulnerable predecessor and generates predictable outcomes. A researcher today at CanSecWest said an attacker could brute force the Early Random PRNG used by Apple in its mobile operating system to bypass a number of...

Microsoft EMET 5.0 Technical Preview Released

SAN FRANCISCO – Enterprises beat up by wave after wave of Java exploits and calls to disable the platform may soon have some relief in sight. Microsoft’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit will soon have a new feature that allows users to configure where plug-ins, especially those target...

NextGEN Gallery 2.0.0 Directory Traversal

https://security.dxw.com/advisories/directory-traversal-in-nextgen-gallery-2-0-0/ Details ================ Software: NextGEN Gallery Version: 2.0.0 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ CVSS: 5 Medium; AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Description ================ Directory traversal i...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Yang Yu is no stranger to writing mitigation bypasses for Microsoft Windows products. A year ago at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, the 35-year-old security researcher from Beijing did an extensive presentation on bypassing Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR and Data Execution...

Bugging the Bug Market

PUNTA CANA–The Microsoft bug bounty program, started last year as a way to encourage researchers to develop new offensive and defensive techniques, has been a success so far and the company is looking for new ways to expand it in the future. Katie Moussouris, the security strategist at Microsoft...

PT-2014-2181 · Condor · Condor

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Condor versions 7.2.0 through 7.6.4 Condor versions 7.7.x Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, affecting the condor schedd daemon and potentially preventing job launches. It may also be possible for attacker...

Schneider Electric PLCs Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW --------- Begin Update B Part 1 of 2 -------- This updated advisory is a follow-up to the previous advisory update titled ICSA-13-077-01A Schneider Electric PLCs Vulnerabilities Update A that was published March 20, 2013, on the ICS-CERT Web page. It is also a follow-up to the updated...

Microsoft Changes Bug Bounty Program to Include Incident Responders, Forensics Specialists

Having found some initial success with its first foray into the bug bounty world, Microsoft is expanding the program to open up payments of up to $100,000 to incident response teams and forensics experts who come across active attacks in the wild that include new techniques that bypass exploit...