Important: SDL2

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in libSDL2.a in Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL 2.0.9. There is an out-of-bounds read in the function SDLInvalidateMap at video/SDLpixels.c.CVE-2019-12222 A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in SDL in the SDLBlitCopy function, that was called while...

Important: patch

Issue Overview: doedscript in pch.c in GNU patch through 2.7.6 does not block strings beginning with a ! character. NOTE: this is the same commit as for CVE-2019-13638, but the ! syntax is specific to ed, and is unrelated to a shell metacharacter.CVE-2018-20969 GNU patch through 2.7.6 is vulnerab...

Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

The Microsoft Cyber Defense Operations Center CDOC fields trillions of security signals every day. How do we identify and respond to the right threats? One thing that won’t surprise you: we leverage artificial intelligence AI, machine learning, and automation to narrow the focus. But technology i...

Important: nghttp2

Issue Overview: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and...

Microsoft Windows Silent Process Exit Persistence

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core/post/file' require 'msf/core/exploit/exe' class MetasploitModule 'Windows Silent Process Exit Persistence', 'Description' = %q Windows allows you to se...

Medium: mysql56

Issue Overview: Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Security: Privileges. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.44 and prior, 5.7.26 and prior and 8.0.16 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon to...

Medium: curl

Issue Overview: Heap buffer overflow in the TFTP protocol handler in cURL 7.19.4 to 7.65.3. CVE-2019-5482 Double-free vulnerability in the FTP-kerberos code in cURL 7.52.0 to 7.65.3. CVE-2019-5481 Affected Packages: curl Issue Correction: Run yum update curl or yum update --advisory ALAS-2019-129...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host...

Why Should CISOs Care About XDR?

We have been collectively saying in our industry for the last 15-20 years that a layered approach to your security stack is a “best practice,” but as with all best practices, these are ideals rather than reality for so many charged with protecting their organizations. The vast majority of CISOs a...

2019 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors

MITRE has released the 2019 Common Weakness Enumeration CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors list. The Top 25 is a compilation of the most frequent and critical errors that can lead to serious vulnerabilities in software. An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of...

Medium: perl-Archive-Tar

Issue Overview: It was found that the Archive::Tar module did not properly sanitize symbolic links when extracting tar archives. An attacker, able to provide a specially crafted archive for processing, could use this flaw to write or overwrite arbitrary files in the context of the Perl...

Medium: kernel

Issue Overview: A backporting error was discovered in the Linux stable/longterm kernel 4.4.x through 4.4.190, 4.9.x through 4.9.190, 4.14.x through 4.14.141, 4.19.x through 4.19.69, and 5.2.x through 5.2.11. Misuse of the upstream "x86/ptrace: Fix possible spectre-v1 in ptracegetdebugreg" commit...

WordPress SlickQuiz 1.3.7.1 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications 1. ADVISORY INFORMATION ======================= Product: SlickQuiz Vendor URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/slickquiz/ Type: Cross-Site Scripting CWE-79 Date found: 2019-05-30 Date published: 2019-09-10 CVSSv3 Score: 6.1...

The Need for an Updated Kill Chain

“Cyber Kill Chain” The “Cyber Kill Chain”—created in 2011 by Lockheed Martin—was designed to be a model that “identifies what…adversaries must complete in order to achieve their objective.” This framework has been widely used through the cybersecurity world and informs prevention-heavy strategy. ...

OpenCTI - Open Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

OpenCTI is an open source platform allowing organizations to manage their cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. It has been created in order to structure, store, organize and visualize technical and non-technical information about cyber threats. The structuration of the data is...

BLUESPAWN - Windows Based Active Defense Tool To Empower Blue Teams

BLUESPAWN helps blue teams monitor Windows systems in real-time against active attackers by detecting anomalous activity Why we made BLUESPAWN We've created and open-sourced this for a number of reasons which include the following: Move Faster : We wanted tooling specifically designed to quickly...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed A month ago, MITRE Caldera 2.2.0 was released and a couple of days back now MITRE CALDERA 2.3.0 was released as well. If you remember, I wrote briefly about this automated adversary emulation system in my post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. A lot of changes have be...

file -- Heap buffer overflow possible

mitre reports cdfreadpropertyinfo in cdf.c in file through 5.37 does not restrict the number of CDFVECTOR elements, which allows a heap-based buffer overflow 4-byte out-of-bounds write...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: GermanWiper Ransomware

GermanWiper Ransomware was found distributed via spam email campaign in Germany. It’s a data-wiping malware and the ransom note was written in German language. The malware pretends to be ransomware but is actually a wiper that destroys the data instead of encrypting it. Figure 1: Screenshot of th...

CB TAU Threat Intelligence Notification – Karagany Malware

Secureworks recently reported in regards to an update of Karagany malware last month. The malware is used by the IRON LIBERTY threat group also known as DragonFly2.0 and Energetic Bear, targeting energy companies and organizations. Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU provides the product rules ...