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...

Schneider Electric Authenticated Communication Risk Vulnerability

OVERVIEW ICS-CERT received a report from Schneider Electric concerning an Authenticated Communication Risk vulnerability in the Schneider Electric Software Update SESU utility. This vulnerability was reported to Schneider Electric by security researcher Arthur Gervais. The SESU is a centralized...

Researcher Takes Home $100k Prize From Microsoft For New Attack

One day after announcing that it had paid researchers $28,000 for reporting a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft revealed that it has written a much bigger check–this one for $100,000–to a researcher who has discovered a new attack technique that bypasses all of the...

Assessing risk for the October 2013 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 25 CVE’s. Four bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other four have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

An update on the bounty programs

Back in June of this year, we announced three new bounty programs that will pay researchers for techniques that bypass built-in OS mitigations and protections, for defenses that stop those bypasses and for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11 Preview. This past Friday, we provided some...

Assessing risk for the August 2013 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 23 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

Mitigating the LdrHotPatchRoutine DEP/ASLR bypass with MS13-063

Today we released MS13-063 which includes a defense in depth change to address an exploitation technique that could be used to bypass two important platform mitigations: Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR and Data Execution Prevention DEP. As we’ve described in the past, these mitigations pl...

Windows 8 Phone Authentication Protocol Weakness

Microsoft issued a security advisory on Sunday, warning of a potential data leakage issue for Windows Phone users connecting to Wi-Fi hotspots. Hackers love to set traps for wireless users promising free Wi-Fi in airports, restaurants and other public areas. Once a mobile device connects to the...

BREACH vulnerability in compressed HTTPS

Overview By observing the length of compressed HTTPS responses, an attacker may be able to derive plaintext secrets from the ciphertext of an HTTPS stream. Description Angelo Prado of Salesforce.com reports:Extending the CRIME vulnerability presented at Ekoparty 2012, an attacker can target HTTPS...

Inside the Security Model of BlackBerry 10

LAS VEGAS–The new BlackBerry 10 operating system contains a number of security improvements and upgrades over earlier versions, but there are still some features and functions that an attacker may be able to exploit. The OS also contains a diagnostic tool called QUIP that has the ability to colle...