UPDATE: Empire 3.2.3

Empire 3.2.3 was released a couple of days ago! If you remember, I briefly mentioned about this tool in my five month old post titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This version adds MITRE ATT&CK technique tagging among other new features. What is Empire? Empire 3.0 is an...

upnp -- denial of service (crash)

CVE mitre reports: Portable UPnP SDK aka libupnp 1.12.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a crafted SSDP message due to a NULL pointer dereference in the functions FindServiceControlURLPath and FindServiceEventURLPath in genlib/servicetable/servicetable.c...

Important: unbound

Issue Overview: A network amplification vulnerability was found in Unbound, in the way it processes delegation messages from one authoritative zone to another. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service or be part of an attack against another DNS server when Unbound is deployed as ...

Medium: python

Issue Overview: http.cookiejar.DefaultPolicy.domainreturnok in Lib/http/cookiejar.py in Python before 3.7.3 does not correctly validate the domain: it can be tricked into sending existing cookies to the wrong server. An attacker may abuse this flaw by using a server with a hostname that has anoth...

Medium: krb5

Issue Overview: A Reachable Assertion issue was discovered in the KDC in MIT Kerberos 5 aka krb5 before 1.17. If an attacker can obtain a krbtgt ticket using an older encryption type single-DES, triple-DES, or RC4, the attacker can crash the KDC by making an S4U2Self request.CVE-2018-20217 Affect...

Important: ppp

Issue Overview: eap.c in pppd in ppp 2.4.2 through 2.4.8 has an rhostname buffer overflow in the eaprequest and eapresponse functions.CVE-2020-8597 Affected Packages: ppp Issue Correction: Run yum update ppp or yum update --advisory ALAS-2020-1371 to update your system. New Packages: i686: ...

UPDATE: Infection Monkey 1.8.0

Infection Monkey 1.8.0 was released a while ago. My first post about this tool can be found in a post titled the List of Adversary Emulation Tools. This is a big, exciting release, which enhances the Monkey’s capabilities. The Monkey now maps its actions to the MITRE ATT knowledge base and as...

ACSC Releases Cyber Criminal and APT Tradecraft Trends for 2019-2020

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released a summary of trends for 2019-2020 outlining tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs used by cyber criminals and advanced persistent threat APT groups to target Australian networks. ACSC uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and...

Third-Party Tests Rate VMware Carbon Black Cloud as a Leader in Protection, Detection; Platform Delivers 379% ROI for Customers

The biggest endpoint protection question for organizations right now is whether or not to upgrade from legacy approaches to cloud-native platforms with built-in EDR. If you boil this decision down to three key factors stronger protection, clearer visibility, and faster resolution, the choice...

WordPress ChopSlider 3 SQL Injection

---------------------------------------------------------------- ChopSlider3 Wordpress Plugin SQL Injection ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Software Link: https://idangero.us/ https://github.com/idangerous/Plugins - Affected Versions: ChopSlider version 3. -...

Important: http-parser

Issue Overview: HTTP request smuggling in Node.js 10, 12, and 13 causes malicious payload delivery when transfer-encoding is malformed CVE-2019-15605 Affected Packages: http-parser Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 AL2 Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference...

Important: icu

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in International Components for Unicode ICU for C/C++ through 66.1. An integer overflow, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, exists in the UnicodeString::doAppend function in common/unistr.cpp. CVE-2020-10531 Affected Packages: icu Note: This advisory ...

Microsoft Threat Protection leads in real-world detection in MITRE ATT&CK evaluation

The latest round of MITRE ATT&CK evaluations proved yet again that Microsoft customers can trust they are fully protected even in the face of such an advanced attack as APT29. When looking at protection results out of the box, without configuration changes, Microsoft Threat Protection MTP: Provid...

Elemental - An MITRE ATTACK Threat Library

Elemental is a centralized threat library of MITRE ATT&CK techniques, Atomic Red Team tests, and over 280 Sigma rules. It provides an alternative way to explore the ATT&CK dataset, mapping relevant Atomic Red Team tests and Sigma rules to their respective technique. Elemental allows defenders to...

Trend Micro’s Top Ten MITRE Evaluation Considerations

The introduction of the MITRE ATT&CK evaluations is a welcomed addition to the third-party testing arena. The ATT&CK framework, and the evaluations in particular, have gone such a long way in helping advance the security industry as a whole, and the individual security products serving the market...

Getting ATT&CKed By A Cozy Bear And Being Really Happy About It: What MITRE Evaluations Are, and How To Read Them

Full disclosure: I am a security product testing nerd. I’ve been following the MITRE ATT&CK Framework for a while, and this week the results were released of the most recent evaluation using APT29 otherwise known as COZY BEAR. First, here’s a snapshot of the Trend eval results as I understand the...

GHSA-W8RC-PGXQ-X2CJ Negative charge in shopping cart in Shopizer

Impact Using API or Controller based versions negative quantity is not adequately validated hence creating incorrect shopping cart and order total. Patches Adding a back-end verification to check that quantity parameter isn't negative. If so, it is set to 1. Patched in 2.11.0 Workarounds Without...

Negative charge in shopping cart in Shopizer

Impact Using API or Controller based versions negative quantity is not adequately validated hence creating incorrect shopping cart and order total. Patches Adding a back-end verification to check that quantity parameter isn't negative. If so, it is set to 1. Patched in 2.11.0 Workarounds Without...

MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Demonstrates the Power of the VMware Carbon Black Cloud

MITRE has released the results for its latest endpoint detection and response EDR product evaluation using its now industry-standard open methodology, the ATT&CK® framework. This year’s results further demonstrate why VMware Carbon Black, now a two-time participant, is a top choice of security an...

Important: xerces-c

Issue Overview: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in xerces-c in the way an XML document is processed via the SAX API. Applications that process XML documents with an external Document Type Definition DTD may be vulnerable to this flaw. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by creating...