CVE-2021-3840

CVE-2021-3840 : A dependency confusion flaw in the Antilles open-source software prior to 1.0.1 could allow remote code execution during installation when a package listed in requirements.txt does not exist in PyPI. The issue is categorized as CWE-427 (Uncontrolled Search Path Element) where a pr...

Building Threat-Informed Defenses: Rapid7 Experts Share Their Thoughts on MITRE ATT&CK

MITRE ATT&CK is considered by practitioners and the analyst community to be the most comprehensive framework of cybersecurity attacks and mitigation techniques available today. MITRE helps the security industry speak the same language and stick to a well-known, common framework. To get more detai...

Low: hivex

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry hive file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the getchildren function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system...

Medium: c-ares

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in c-ares library, where a missing input validation check of host names returned by DNS Domain Name Servers can lead to output of wrong hostnames which might potentially lead to Domain Hijacking. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and...

Medium: openssl

Issue Overview: It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the applicatio...

Exploit for SQL Injection in Engineers_Online_Portal_Project Engineers_Online_Portal

CVE-2021-42670 CVE-2021-42670 - SQL Injection vulnerability in...

Exploit for Cross-site Scripting in Engineers_Online_Portal_Project Engineers_Online_Portal

CVE-2021-42664 CVE-2021-42664 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting vu...

GHSA-HGC3-HP6X-WPGX Antilles Dependency Confusion Vulnerability

Potential Impact: Remote code execution. Scope of Impact: Open-source project specific. Summary Description: A dependency confusion vulnerability was reported in the Antilles open-source software prior to version 1.0.1 that could allow for remote code execution during installation due to a packag...

Antilles Dependency Confusion Vulnerability

Potential Impact: Remote code execution. Scope of Impact: Open-source project specific. Summary Description: A dependency confusion vulnerability was reported in the Antilles open-source software prior to version 1.0.1 that could allow for remote code execution during installation due to a packag...

BlackMatter ransomware group announces shutdown. But for how long?

The BlackMatter ransomware gang has announced they are going to shut down their operation, citing pressure from local authorities. And pressure there is. Only two weeks ago, we wrote about a warning that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...

How we took part in MLSEC and (almost) won

This summer Kaspersky experts took part in the Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC — a series of trials testing contestants ability to create and attack machine learning models. The event is comprised of two main challenges — one for attackers, and the other for defenders. The...

2021 CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses

The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2021 Common Weakness Enumeration CWE Most Important Hardware Weaknesses List. The 2021 Hardware List is a compilation of the most frequent...

Protect yourself from BlackMatter ransomware: Advice issued

Despite promises made by the BlackMatter ransomware gang about which organizations and business types they would avoid, multiple US critical infrastructure entities have been targeted. Now, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, in conjunction with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

BlackMatter Ransomware

Summary Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against BlackMatter Ransomware • Implement and enforce backup and restoration policies and procedures. • Usestrong, unique passwords. • Usemulti-factor authentication. • Implement network segmentation and traversal monitoring. Note: this advisory uses t...

Tenacity 2.0 – Emulating Threat groups

Introduction The previous article: Tenacity – An Adversary Emulation Tool for Persistence, walked us through the working of Tenacity, techniques it supports, and how it can help organizations and individuals to validate the risk posture. As with the second installment of the series, this post wil...

Gfos Workforce Management Licensing Issue Vulnerability

Gfos Workforce Management, a workforce management system from Mitre Corporation, U.S.A. A security vulnerability exists in Gfos Workforce Management, which stems from poor JSESSIONID management, where the application's login page is prone to bypass authentication and an attacker can use...

Medium: glib2

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in GNOME GLib before 2.66.7 and 2.67.x before 2.67.4. If gbytearraynewtake was called with a buffer of 4GB or more on a 64-bit platform, the length would be truncated modulo 232, causing unintended length truncation. CVE-2021-27218 Affected Packages: glib2...

Medium: openssl11

Issue Overview: It was found that openssl assumed ASN.1 strings to be NUL terminated. A malicious actor may be able to force an application into calling openssl function with a specially crafted, non-NUL terminated string to deliberately hit this bug, which may result in a crash of the applicatio...

What's New in InsightIDR: Q3 2021 in Review

This post offers a closer look at some of the recent updates and releases in InsightIDR, our extended detection and response solution, from Q3 2021. Welcome IntSights to the Rapid7 Insight Platform family! As you may have seen in recent communications, Rapid7 acquired IntSights, a leading provide...

Medium: containerd

Issue Overview: A bug was found in containerd where container root directories and some plugins had insufficiently restricted permissions, allowing otherwise unprivileged Linux users to traverse directory contents and execute programs. When containers included executable programs with extended...